Re: Does anyone Know How to recover Lost Partition?

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From: Christopher Lynn (christopher_lynn_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: 9 Aug 2004 11:39:05 -0700

Try using File Scavenger. It's $40 and can drag files back up to the
surface after an accidental wipe/format/defrag-wipe/mbr missing, this
is if you are only looking to do file recovery. It can recover a
partition only if the partition is NOT a boot partition.

If the files are on the boot partition, get ready to put the drive
into another system, making sure that the drive is set to slave and
pull the files from the other OS.

For a 60 gig drive it took me 3 hours to rebuild a file and print
server. Not the OS mind you, just pull the data up off a drive.
(Client's backup wasn't very -erm- regular because a 8 gig tape drive
doesn't backup 45 gigs) :\

"BeoWoof" <beowoof At Hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<e41noGFeEHA.1644@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>...
> An open Plea to anyone who can help..
>
> I lost a 20gB partition on my system after an untimely experience with the
> Sysprep Utility Factory setting.
> The partition it was on now shows up as "Raw" in the management disk
> console.
> I tried to recover it using Acronis Tools. It comes up as being a "None
> Partition Oxc (fat32)" and says nothing can be done.
>
> The other partitions on the physical drive check out ok.
>
> Is there Any way of restoring the partition, or converting it back, so that
> I can transfer my data?
> I can't use the ASR as the MS KB articles suggest, since the OEM recovery
> disks that came with my system only have a single (un-openable) image file
> on it.
>
> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> RD
> beowoof at Hotmail com

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