recovering lost partitions...

Hello,

XP crashed on me yesterday and upon rebooting the system I found that my
second hard drive was "missing". Probably not really relevant but at the
time of the crash I was copying a disc and "burning" the image to said hard
drive. Under XP's Disk Management I discovered that it's now marked as
unitialized, and have lost the 3 partitions I had on it. I haven't lost
anything crucial but I would still like to recover the partitions if
possible. I've run some basic diagnostics and nothing unusual has shown up
in the Event Logs so I'm assuming the drive is still ok. I've run Acronis'
Disk Director partition recovery tool (the quick method) and it was unable
to recovery anything. I'm in the process of running the complete/extensive
test in Disk Director but am wondering if it will recovery anything either.
It's presently been running for 12 hours and judging from it's progress it
will likely take 3 or 4 days to complete. Is anyone here familiar with
Disk Director? I realize it's going sector by sector but is this a normal
amount of time (for a 200GB drive)? Does anyone have any other tools that
may do the trick (something free or inexpensive would be preferable)?


TIA,

Greg


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