- Help..Partition magic made my partition disappear into oblivion
- Posted by Pierre Jarry on July 12th, 2003
Something went wrong while I was merging a 6Gb NTFS patition with the
50Gb NTFS primary partition it had originally come from...(PM had
frozen and I had to reboot half way thru the process...yikes!).
Now there is 6Gb of space missing on the disk that doesn't even show
up as unallocated space...
The Bios, PM and Sisoft Sandra all report the full drive size but
report nevertheless the available space as being 6Gb short of what it
ought to be...
XP and CHKDSK, unfortunately only see the "reduced size".
PM from XP or Rescue floppy doens't see anything wrong otherwise and
everything works....
It looks like the FAT is confused as to where the last sector of the
disk is....
Does anyone know of a way to "fix" this...a utility...a non
destructive formating...whatever...??
Any help would be appreciated.
Pierre
- Posted by Me2U on July 12th, 2003
Plenty of pages at Google about recovering deleted partition tables.
LINK
Pierre Jarry wrote:
- Posted by Pierre Jarry on July 12th, 2003
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:33:00 GMT, Me2U <from.me@verizon.net> wrote:
woudn't be any good for my situation since in my case, the missing
"partition" is not within another partition space...not even
"unallocated" space....it's become outside of where these utilities
would consider looking....and there is no data as such that I'm trying
to recover...just lost space...
Although "Winhex" demo looked promising, even though the demo can't
"save" cluster parameter changes, and is not cheap.
Pierre
- Posted by Pierre Jarry on July 13th, 2003
Well, I've watched the Expos there when I lived in Montreal...have
been in New Zealand for 19 years though...
I've installed Clean Disk Security...can see the nice Hex
numbers...now what...?
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:24:43 -0400, the real TOMMY Tutalidge
<pinball@aei.net> wrote:
- Posted by Oxford Systems on July 13th, 2003
"Pierre Jarry" <piejar@NOSPAMM.paradise.net.nz> wrote in message
news:3f10676a.1046564@news.paradise.net.nz...
Just wanted to say that the problem was more likely you and your reboot than
it was PM. On large drives (and 50 GB counts as a "large"drive), PM may
appear to "freeze" even while it works. It's even part of their FAQ. The
thing that screws up is users rebooting because of a "frozen" program that
isn't frozen. When you are messing around with partitions, let the software
alone for as long as it takes. Anything else is begging for trouble.
- Posted by Miggsee on July 13th, 2003
Try this:
In XP, go into Administrative tools> Computer Management> Disk Management.
Right click on the disk in question, and choose your options. Use your Help
and Support files if in doubt.
"Pierre Jarry" <piejar@NOSPAMM.paradise.net.nz> wrote in message
news:3f10676a.1046564@news.paradise.net.nz...
- Posted by Pierre Jarry on July 14th, 2003
I agree, I should have waited ( I waited 30 mins with the mouse not
responding at all, and the HD LED not flashing and no noise from the
HD..this is in DOS mode PM from the rescue disk)...I could have tried
the NumLock key LED apparently.
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:44:21 GMT, "Oxford Systems"
<oxford-systems@removetoreply.mindspring.com> wrote:
