any boot/partition experts out there

[bill]

I'm not sure what I did but it wasn't a good thing.

I have been struggling to swap systems. It appears that I deleted a
partition on a drive on the old system which I probably did on
purpose, because I have a copy of what was on there. It was the first
partition or primary.

the second one is now inaccessible and I don't have a copy of that one
so I didn't screw it up on purpose.

the first one still shows the name using one of the partition
programs, but the extended partition shows no name.
The primary partition appear irrelevant - IE like it was deleted, but
the extended appears to have indicators the something is still there.
It was NTFS but comes back indicating it is FAT something.

I tried Fix MBR for the first partition and it said it did, but the
first still shows unformatted, which is OK.

Should I use fix mbr on the extended partition or fix boot or what?

Is there any way to make this visible again?

If I didn't delete this partition, what could have happened to it?

thanks for your incite.

bill

 

[philo]

I'm not sure what I did but it wasn't a good thing.

I have been struggling to swap systems. It appears that I deleted a
partition on a drive on the old system which I probably did on
purpose, because I have a copy of what was on there. It was the first
partition or primary.

the second one is now inaccessible and I don't have a copy of that one
so I didn't screw it up on purpose.

<snip>

Install a data recovery utility on a working machine...then slave the
problematic drive to it
and see if there is any recoverable data

 

[Lil' Dave]

An extended partition contains no file data. Only the drive contained
within that extended partition does. The former mbr contained the location
of both the former primary and estended partition. Normally, deleting the
former primary partition would not affect the location information of the
extended partition, and the extended partition's information concerning the
drive it contains. Sounds like something somewhat unusual regarding what
made those partitions.
Dave

 

[bill]

thx for the replies.
it turns out to be cockpit error and mass confusion re drive jumpers
and the 32GB limit. the drive label could be better.

I'm still confused but it is back to the living relm, though I lost
some files.