Problem with NTFS file system

I need some help with a big problem with my hard drive. EL Monte appreciated.

Here is what I had on my hard drive before this problem.
c: is my primary partition which has Vista on a 300 GB partition
D: is the recovery partition which is about 8 GB
i: was my Xp partition which had all my information and programs I use
because of my handicap

which was 58 GB.


I was working on getting more room for my i: xp partition. I couldn't use
the disk manager that came

with Vista because it can't do it for some reason. Since I had dual boot on
my computer I'd just booted

to my xp partition so I could run Paragon Partition Manager 2005. When I
did I was trying to resize

this partition but then it said I had to change the NTFS file system because
it couldn't understand the

3.0 files system. So it changed it too an old NtFS files system so when I
rebooted my computer it could

not see my i: XP system at all. Not even in Vista. It just shows the c:
and the d: drives and it shows

another partition which will not let me change it.

Is there any way in which I can change the whole hard drive back to the new
NTFS files system without

losing any data? I'm in trouble here because all my information is in the
hidden partition. I just

don't know what to do. Let me know if you have any ideas.

My e-mail address is;
mhavlat@yahoo.com


Thank you for -your time

Michael Havlat

mhavlat wrote:

> I need some help with a big problem with my hard drive. EL Monte
> appreciated.
>
> Here is what I had on my hard drive before this problem.
> c: is my primary partition which has Vista on a 300 GB partition
> D: is the recovery partition which is about 8 GB
> i: was my Xp partition which had all my information and programs I use
> because of my handicap
>
> which was 58 GB.
>
>
> I was working on getting more room for my i: xp partition. I couldn't use
> the disk manager that came
>
> with Vista because it can't do it for some reason. Since I had dual boot
> on my computer I'd just booted
>
> to my xp partition so I could run Paragon Partition Manager 2005. When I
> did I was trying to resize
>
> this partition but then it said I had to change the NTFS file system
> because it couldn't understand the
>
> 3.0 files system. So it changed it too an old NtFS files system so when I
> rebooted my computer it could
>
> not see my i: XP system at all. Not even in Vista. It just shows the c:
> and the d: drives and it shows
>
> another partition which will not let me change it.
>
> Is there any way in which I can change the whole hard drive back to the
> new NTFS files system without
>
> losing any data? I'm in trouble here because all my information is in the
> hidden partition. I just

See if Paragon Partition Manager has an Undo feature and use it. Otherwise,
you're looking at data recovery being necessary. Post back if you need
details about doing data recovery.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

Malke wrote:
> mhavlat wrote:
>
>> I need some help with a big problem with my hard drive. EL Monte
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Here is what I had on my hard drive before this problem.
>> c: is my primary partition which has Vista on a 300 GB partition
>> D: is the recovery partition which is about 8 GB
>> i: was my Xp partition which had all my information and programs I use
>> because of my handicap
>>
>> which was 58 GB.
>>
>>
>> I was working on getting more room for my i: xp partition. I couldn't use
>> the disk manager that came
>>
>> with Vista because it can't do it for some reason. Since I had dual boot
>> on my computer I'd just booted
>>
>> to my xp partition so I could run Paragon Partition Manager 2005. When I
>> did I was trying to resize
>>
>> this partition but then it said I had to change the NTFS file system
>> because it couldn't understand the
>>
>> 3.0 files system. So it changed it too an old NtFS files system so when I
>> rebooted my computer it could
>>
>> not see my i: XP system at all. Not even in Vista. It just shows the c:
>> and the d: drives and it shows
>>
>> another partition which will not let me change it.
>>
>> Is there any way in which I can change the whole hard drive back to the
>> new NTFS files system without
>>
>> losing any data? I'm in trouble here because all my information is in the
>> hidden partition. I just
>
> See if Paragon Partition Manager has an Undo feature and use it. Otherwise,
> you're looking at data recovery being necessary. Post back if you need
> details about doing data recovery.
>
> Malke

Malke -- He said that the I drive is missing which was the one that XP
was installed on. He had booted into XP to run the partition manager
software.

One thing to note is that the partition manager may of changed the
partition type code so that it could work on the data safely. Partition
Magic does this. I would see about the ability to undo the changes.