partition problem

[devilsnaredk]

i have a laptop which has vista ultimate with only two hard drives i.e. c and
recovery drive.so i tried to make a partition by following the steps given
below without the help of ant 3rd party software.
steps:
start menu/right click computer/mange/disk management/right click the drive
i want to make partition/shrink/
after following this step i made a partition of 30gb it was working fine
untill i hibernate my laptop....but when i started my laptop the next time
the drive was missing and all my files stored in it was gone......
i have tried partition magic also and it seems like it is not supported on
vista platform....please help me because i hav many important documents in
that drive..........i want to get it back....

 

[Wandering]

Quick and dirty:

Try recreating the 30GB partition again. The data is probably still there.

 

[devilsnaredk]

thanx for your concern...am gonna try it right now...but i think tha datas
are missing coz it also had some mp3 files in it.....bt when i tried to play
it on winamp through the songs showed on playlist,it didnt work..........

 

[Wandering]

Before or after you recreated? Until the OP can see a partition, it can't
access the disk, so there is nothing there. Once the partition is
established it can read the disk again. The partition data is in a separate
place from the data on the disk. No promises!

Good luck.

 

[Randy]

Hey guy,

One more chance, you can open disk management to check if you can see the
30GB partition list in it, if so, you can assign a new letter to this drive,
in most situation, it's just a letter missing, not a partition missing.

PS. if you create a new partition again, maybe your data will lost forever.

Good Luck!!!

 

[whiteurls]

A data recovery software will help you in recovering your lost
partition. Try using Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software a
file and partition recovery utility which recovers lost partition from
FAT 16, FAT 32, NTFS & NTFS5 file system.
Download the demo from: http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm
Demo will help you to see the preview of the recovered data. If you
are able to see the preview then get the full version to save it.