Re: recovering lost partitions...

Too weird. XP crashed again tonight (during the running of Disk Director).
When I rebooted my partitions were all magically back and intact. Now to
find out what's causing the crashing....

I'd still appreciate any insight on Disk Director for any that use it.


Thanks,

Greg


GO wrote:
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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