Does anyone Know How to recover Lost Partition?

[BeoWoof]

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

 

[Guest]

If a Windows 2000 NTFS or FAT32 dynamic volume is accidentally deleted by using the Disk Management snap-in, you may be able to recover the volume and the data contained on it.

You can do this only if a new volume has not been created and formatted in its place. When Disk Management removes a volume from a dynamic disk, it erases the volume's file-system boot sector (sector-0 of the volume), and then removes the volume entry from the Disk Management private region database, leaving the rest of the drive intact (including the data). Because both NTFS and FAT32 volumes maintain backup boot sectors, you can recover the volume by restoring the boot sector.

NOTES
•FAT16 volumes do not contain a backup boot sector and cannot be recovered if they are deleted.
•In this article, the steps to recover the deleted volume do not apply to a dynamic RAID-5 volume or to a dynamic mirrored volume.


To recover the deleted volume, use one of the following procedures.

To Recover a Deleted NTFS Volume
1.Re-create the exact same volume but choose not to format it. This may be difficult if you do not remember the exact size you had created originally, especially because the Disk Management snap-in tends to round partition sizes.
2.Using Dskprobe.exe, recover the backup boot sector for the NTFS volume from the end of the volume. Because it is a dynamic volume you may need to use Dmdiag.exe to help find the backup boot sector, or search for it by using Dskprobe.exe (on the Tools menu, click Search Sectors).
3.After rewriting the NTFS boot sector, quit Dskprobe.
4.In Disk Management, click Rescan Disks on the Action menu. This should mount the volume for immediate use.

To Recover a Deleted FAT32 Volume
1.Re-create the exact same volume, but choose not to format it. This may be difficult if you do not remember the exact size you had created originally, especially because the Disk Management snap-in tends to round partition sizes.
2.Using Dskprobe.exe, recover the backup boot sector for the FAT32 volume from sector-6 of the logical volume and write it to sector-0 of the logical volume.
3.After rewriting the FAT32 boot sector, quit Dskprobe.
4.In Disk Management, click Rescan Disks on the Action menu. This should mount the volume for immediate use.

 

[Christopher Lynn]

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) :\

 

[lukeles]

An open Plea to anyone who can help..

I lost a 20gB partition on my system after an untimely experience wit
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
"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, s
that
I can transfer my data?
I can't use the ASR as the MS KB articles suggest, since the OE
recovery
disks that came with my system only have a single (un-openable) imag
file
on it.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

RD
beowoof at Hotmail com

May be the boot sector or FAT/ MFT are corrupt. Don't format,
use some tool to fix it.

I suggest you use Partition Table Doctor to fix boot sector.

First thing I recommend you download the demo version of
Partition Table Doctor.( http://www.ptdd.com/download.htm )

Run the program and right click the partition and choose fixboot.

For more detail:
http://www.ptdd.com/fixboot.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/mbr.htm
http://www.ptdd.co

 

[El More]

Greetings,

I suppose Active@ Partition Recovery might help you to restore lost
partition. It has the best recover methods I've used before. Give it a
try, you won't regret it. Recommended!


http://www.partition-recovery.com/