Re: recovering lost partitions...

Please provide a copy of the Stop Error Report.

Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on
the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,
Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before
Automatically Restart.

Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure even after you have
solved the problem as it's better disabled. Check for variants of the
Stop Error message.

An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and select
option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.

Also please provide copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in
the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the time when the
error occurs. No Information Reports please.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information. You can copy using copy
and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further
information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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GO wrote:
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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