Help!! Missing Logical Drive on Extended Partition

[Norris Li]

I recently purchased a Maxtor 250GB Harddrive. I installed it and partition
it into H: (Primary Partition) I: and J: (Logical Drives in the Extended
Partition), all in NTFS. It worked fine for a couple days and I was
comfortable enough to move some files onto this new harddrive.

But today, when I want to access some files on the new HD, I found that my
extended partition are lost. Went to Disk Management in Computer Management
and it showed only the primary partition (H and the extended partition has
become Free Space. That means my I: and J: are lost?

I'm not sure if it's related, but my system (WinXP SP1) crashed last night
but I didn't pay much attention after the reboot. Only today I found out
that my partitions are lost. How can I recover the data in there? Someone
please help me!

 

[Robert Green]

I recently purchased a Maxtor 250GB Harddrive. I installed it and partition
it into H: (Primary Partition) I: and J: (Logical Drives in the Extended
Partition), all in NTFS. It worked fine for a couple days and I was
comfortable enough to move some files onto this new harddrive.

But today, when I want to access some files on the new HD, I found that my
extended partition are lost. Went to Disk Management in Computer Management
and it showed only the primary partition (H and the extended partition has
become Free Space. That means my I: and J: are lost?

I'm not sure if it's related, but my system (WinXP SP1) crashed last night
but I didn't pay much attention after the reboot. Only today I found out
that my partitions are lost. How can I recover the data in there? Someone
please help me!

You can give BootMaster a try - this is the kind of problem it was
designed to recover. http://www.bootmaster.filerecovery.biz. Download
the FreeDOS version. Email (e-mail address removed) if you need any
help.

Bob

Robert Green
BootMaster Partition Recovery
http://www.bootmaster.filerecovery.biz