Lost D Partition

[Luigi]

Hi all,
after installing PowerQuest Partition Magic 8 Demo on my notebook with
Windows Vista Ultimate ITA SP1, I've lost the D: partition on my hard disk.
In "Explore" I see only C:, and D: is missing.

Anyone can help me?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Hi all,
after installing PowerQuest Partition Magic 8 Demo on my notebook with
Windows Vista Ultimate ITA SP1, I've lost the D: partition on my hard
disk.
In "Explore" I see only C:, and D: is missing.

Anyone can help me?

Partition Magic 8 cannot read drives over 137GB, IIRC. You need to move on.
Try Acronis Disk Director instead.

ss.

 

[Luigi]

Partition Magic 8 cannot read drives over 137GB, IIRC. You need to move on.
Try Acronis Disk Director instead.

Ok Synapse, I'll try this program asap.
Thanks a lot.

Luigi

 

[John Barnes]

Also PM8 is not compatible with Vista's version of NTFS and numerous posts,
especially early on, that reported data loss using it. Sometimes
immediately and sometimes later on.

 

[Luigi]

Also PM8 is not compatible with Vista's version of NTFS and numerous posts,
especially early on, that reported data loss using it. Sometimes
immediately and sometimes later on.

Yes, I know.
With Acronis Disk Director Demo I can see the directory tree but not in
Windows.
How can I rescue my data in D:?

Luigi

 

[John Barnes]

Do you see it in Disk Management? Administrative tools/computer
management/disk management
What does it show? You may just have to assign a drive letter.

 

[Luigi]

Do you see it in Disk Management? Administrative tools/computer
management/disk management
What does it show? You may just have to assign a drive letter.

Yes, it is, but I can not assign a letter to this partition, because
Computer Managemente occurs an error e restart again.

L

 

[Luigi]

Try using Testdisk 6.0( freeware ) search on google which will recover
your D: partition with all it's contents

I wish your problem will be solved

Unfortunately I've not found a software version available for Windows Vista.
Do you know if is there?
Thanks a lot.

Luigi

 

[John Barnes]

If you can't fix the partition with Acronis or Terabyte and Disk Management
won't work, you might try moving the drive to another computer with XP to
see if you can use it, otherwise you may have to resort to one of the data
recovery products. This is from Rick
Hi,

It's probably gone. Those proprietary manufacturer recovery routines
essentially do a wipe and reload. Data from the original installation was
likely overwritten during the recovery operation. There is a small chance
that it may not have been affected, and there are plenty of data recovery
tools freely available on the web that you can use for this (here is one I
like that's easy to use: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html).
Otherwise, any recovery would require expensive forensic tools and a data
recovery specialist.