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anon
sorry for the long message - but you need to know all the details
i run winxp pro - two hard disks each partitioned.
i was fiddling around with creating an unnattended install disk,
intending it to re-install a fresh copy over my existing C: drive
however, without me catching it quick enough, for some reason, it
started installing it on my H: drive (first available partition on the
second hard drive) which contains very valuable data (and no... silly
me.. no backups)
i cancelled the install after about only 20 seconds, however, it has
&*%^&$ up the partition table & MBR (i think) as now the drive is
inaccessible. i tried command line chkdsk and all it says is that the
H: partition has free space marked as allocated, and tries to correct
it, but then gives error msg of insufficient disk space to fix it.
i have run partition magic pro to examine the partition - it is visible,
but inaccessible thru PM Pro - only option is to delete it entirely -
and it shows that the partition is full (as chkdsk also noted) however,
i know for a fact that it ISNT full - just been mis-allocated as full
in desperation i ran nortons windoctor - HOORAY - this managed to
somehow fix some of the file pointers, so i was then able to access the
drive as normal from within explorer. I tried to move all the files off
that partition to another one on the first physical hard disk, but a lot
of them give error msg of I/O device error - not accessible
GRRRR..... ive tried the recovery console - fixmbr and this said that
all partitions (3 of them) on the affected disk had been successfully
rewritten, however rebooting into explorer results in the entire disk
being inaccessible again..... back to norton windoctor to at least make
the files visible again
can somebody PLEASE help me reclaim these files. I am prepared to lose
a few files, but there are WAY too many of them affected here for me to
lose them all
Thanx in advance & Merry Christmas to All
spinifex
i run winxp pro - two hard disks each partitioned.
i was fiddling around with creating an unnattended install disk,
intending it to re-install a fresh copy over my existing C: drive
however, without me catching it quick enough, for some reason, it
started installing it on my H: drive (first available partition on the
second hard drive) which contains very valuable data (and no... silly
me.. no backups)
i cancelled the install after about only 20 seconds, however, it has
&*%^&$ up the partition table & MBR (i think) as now the drive is
inaccessible. i tried command line chkdsk and all it says is that the
H: partition has free space marked as allocated, and tries to correct
it, but then gives error msg of insufficient disk space to fix it.
i have run partition magic pro to examine the partition - it is visible,
but inaccessible thru PM Pro - only option is to delete it entirely -
and it shows that the partition is full (as chkdsk also noted) however,
i know for a fact that it ISNT full - just been mis-allocated as full
in desperation i ran nortons windoctor - HOORAY - this managed to
somehow fix some of the file pointers, so i was then able to access the
drive as normal from within explorer. I tried to move all the files off
that partition to another one on the first physical hard disk, but a lot
of them give error msg of I/O device error - not accessible
GRRRR..... ive tried the recovery console - fixmbr and this said that
all partitions (3 of them) on the affected disk had been successfully
rewritten, however rebooting into explorer results in the entire disk
being inaccessible again..... back to norton windoctor to at least make
the files visible again
can somebody PLEASE help me reclaim these files. I am prepared to lose
a few files, but there are WAY too many of them affected here for me to
lose them all
Thanx in advance & Merry Christmas to All
spinifex