Hard Drive Partition Missing

[leroyotterson]

I recently turned on my computer to find that one of my
hard drives is not formated, but was full of data the day
before. Is there a way to recover the partition and data
without paying for data recovery services?

 

[Frank Jelenko]

Two utilities come to mind

PowerQuest's Partition Magic
Gibson's SpinRite at www.grc.com

Also, I'm thinking you may be able to recover the partition by booting into
the recovery console and running
fix mbr an fix mft on the 'missing' drive.

Also, just to confirm - is the missing drive recognized by your BIOS? If
not, recovery console probably won't see the drive. In that case, you could
try disconnecting/reconnecting the power and data cable to the hard drive.

 

[=?iso-8859-1?B?uyBtcnRlZSCr?=]

Nope.

I had the same thing happen twice in one week with a 200 GB drive that I had partitioned 30/30/20/117 GB. Also lost the 117 GB four times in the same period. The drive is now partitioned 30/30/30/37/free (which XP does not see) so that it is under the 137 GB limit.

Yes, I do have SP2 installed. No, there will never be a newer BIOS for the MB (PIII). I have SR6, the disk is fine.

--
Just my 2¢ worth,
Jeff
__________in response to__________
| Two utilities come to mind
|
| PowerQuest's Partition Magic
| Gibson's SpinRite at www.grc.com
|
| Also, I'm thinking you may be able to recover the partition by booting into
| the recovery console and running
| fix mbr an fix mft on the 'missing' drive.
|
| Also, just to confirm - is the missing drive recognized by your BIOS? If
| not, recovery console probably won't see the drive. In that case, you could
| try disconnecting/reconnecting the power and data cable to the hard drive.

 

[Frank Jelenko]

Nope.

I had the same thing happen twice in one week with a 200 GB drive that I had
partitioned 30/30/20/117 GB. Also lost the 117 GB four times in the same
period. The drive is now partitioned 30/30/30/37/free (which XP does not
see) so that it is under the 137 GB limit.

Were you able to recover the partitions?

Yes, I do have SP2 installed. No, there will never be a newer BIOS for the
MB (PIII). I have SR6, the disk is fine.

--
Just my 2¢ worth,
Jeff
__________in response to__________
| Two utilities come to mind
|
| PowerQuest's Partition Magic
| Gibson's SpinRite at www.grc.com
|
| Also, I'm thinking you may be able to recover the partition by booting
into
| the recovery console and running
| fix mbr an fix mft on the 'missing' drive.
|
| Also, just to confirm - is the missing drive recognized by your BIOS? If
| not, recovery console probably won't see the drive. In that case, you
could
| try disconnecting/reconnecting the power and data cable to the hard drive.

 

[=?iso-8859-1?B?uyBtcnRlZSCr?=]

No, I could not recover them.

The drive was being used as a backup for another drive so the partitions were recreated and backups placed on them again.

--
Just my 2¢ worth,
Jeff
__________in response to__________
|
| Were you able to recover the partitions?

 

[jpvnstn]

Op woensdag 25 augustus 2004 05:37:17 UTC+2 schreef leroyotterson het volgende:

I recently turned on my computer to find that one of my
hard drives is not formated, but was full of data the day
before. Is there a way to recover the partition and data
without paying for data recovery services?

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