Partition Magic 7 Pro problems in XP

[Karl UK]

Hi there,

I have one drive, three partitions C,D and E.

C is wondows, D is programs and E is my data.

I shrank D and then increased the size of E with partition magic pro,
and all was going fine. D resized in seconds, then it went to resize
E and said "moving data" so i left it for a while, checked on it, was
at 20%, came back an hour later, still at 20%. Waited another hour,
still at 20% and the pattern of the drive noise stayed teh same like
it had hung.

I prob shouldnt have done but i restarted my machine, all was ok,
partitions resized but i couldnt get into e. after some time i fixed
this with chkdsk e: /f and all my files are back, but some are
corrupted, probably to do with me restarting during them being moved
down the partition.

Is there any tool in PM or a chkdsk command i can use to "un corrupt"
them, or is there something within the NTFS file system i am using on
all the partitions that will "look after itself"?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers


Karl

 

[Pavel]

PowerQuest has just such tool. It's called Drive Image. You did make a
backup of your drives with it before you started to resize your drives?
Actually, PM can copy drive/partition to another drive. I can't tell you how
many times people will do just what you did with out any safety precautions.

 

[Jan Plett]

Hey man, that doesn't answer Karl's question - which AFAIK
has no satisfactory solution anyway; just rubbing salt
into the wound by being a bit smug about what he should
have done isn't going to bring his bad data back...

Might have been a bit kinder to say "Ouch, Man I feel for
you - and by the way, next time you mess with partitions,
make sure you back up first with Drive Image..." etc.

Next time you accidentally bend your car you won't thank
your best mate for saying "Well, dude, you surely knew not
to do 50 round that hairpin..."

 

[Bob Harris]

Try CHKDSK E: /R, whihc fixes more than does the /F option. You will need
to reboot, since CHKDSK only fixes things in boot mode.

As for PM fixes, you might try reading about the DOS verison of PM. Recall
that when you installed PM7, it asked you to make some emergency disks? If
you did, then check the paper manual (or download a PDF copy) and see
whether there is anything useful.

Finally, there are many third-part file recovery programs that might be able
to help. These will work if the data for a file is a OK, but the index to
the data is corrupt. Try a web search on "FILE ECOVERY" or "FILE UNDELETE".
There are also a few free file recovery tools: PC Inspector File Recovery
and Restoration:

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery


Restoration, Author: Brian Kato e-mail: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Pavel]

I guess I was little bit inconsiderate. Chkdsk can help depending of amount
of data that existed on your E drive but with massive data change such as
that created with resizing a drive, what you would end up would be probably
hundreds or even thousands of little recovery files that would only let you
recover some data providing that the data is in some simple readable text
format. On the other hand, if you only had few files on this drive than it
just may work.

 

[Karl UK]

Thanks for all your suggestions.

i can only access the net from uni at the moment, (my broadband is
getting activated on tuesday!)

luckily i didnt lose anything too critical, but will try the tools
anyway.

I was impatient, it was my own fault losing the stuff!!!