Partition Problem

[geoffmcc]

Hello,

I have a emachine computer with winxp home. This has bolth recovery
disks and recovery partition. This is a 2part question. I hope someone
can help.

1. I used partition magic and made a 10g partition. Then later on
without even thinking about it I used recovery and wiped cpu clean. The
10g partition is no longer in my computer as well as does not even show
in disk managment. I reinstalled partition magic and it show the space
but it is all greyed out and can do nothing. Im sure if i hade a floppy
drive i could make a boot disk and use fdisk to solve but i dont so I
am stuck. I tried making a bootable cd w/ nero and found fdisk but it
looks different from what i am used to and i cannot seem to find what i
need. Any suggestions.

2. If i have a recovery cd and a recovery dvd as well as partition can
the partition be deleted to make more space and the cd's will still
work?


Thanks in advance
Geoff

 

[GHalleck]

Hello,

I have a emachine computer with winxp home. This has bolth recovery
disks and recovery partition. This is a 2part question. I hope someone
can help.

1. I used partition magic and made a 10g partition. Then later on
without even thinking about it I used recovery and wiped cpu clean. The
10g partition is no longer in my computer as well as does not even show
in disk managment. I reinstalled partition magic and it show the space
but it is all greyed out and can do nothing. Im sure if i hade a floppy
drive i could make a boot disk and use fdisk to solve but i dont so I
am stuck. I tried making a bootable cd w/ nero and found fdisk but it
looks different from what i am used to and i cannot seem to find what i
need. Any suggestions.

2. If i have a recovery cd and a recovery dvd as well as partition can
the partition be deleted to make more space and the cd's will still
work?

Not having a floppy disk drive is a real problem. Nor would
running fdisk solve the issue of the unallocated partition;
it needs something stronger like delpart.exe. If Partition
Magic cannot do it, then try it with Disk Management and
convert it to free space. With the next pass with the recovery
cdrom, Windows XP should install to the entire hard drive (or
for whatever it was originally configured.)

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User]

Geoff

A recovery CD set will repartition, reformat, and reload exactly as the
machine left the factory.. any changes that you may have made previously
will be wiped out, along with data, programs, etc. The chances of getting
stuff back is never good unless done by a professional data recovery service
(expensive)

The CD set and partition work in conjunction.. do not delete it unless you
intend to get your own full genuine copy of XP..

 

[geoffmcc]

Thats what I thought.

In regards to first problem. I used to experiment with gentoo linux and
may still have the live cd wich gives access to tools like fdisk and
such. Anyone know linux. Will this work. If fdisk is not what i need
anyone no one a linux app that hopefully would be on that cd that will
help.

 

[geoffmcc]

Thats what I thought.

In regards to first problem. I used to experiment with gentoo linux and
may still have the live cd wich gives access to tools like fdisk and
such. Anyone know linux. Will this work. If fdisk is not what i need
anyone no one a linux app that hopefully would be on that cd that will
help.

 

[Plato]

1. I used partition magic and made a 10g partition. Then later on
without even thinking about it I used recovery and wiped cpu clean. The
10g partition is no longer in my computer as well as does not even show
in disk managment. I reinstalled partition magic and it show the space

That's becasue you wiped it out.

 

[Plato]

Not having a floppy disk drive is a real problem.

Agreed.