Partitions have disappeared! Can they be recovered?

[Ian Roberts]

Hi

Just had my concerned sounding brother on the phone...

His XP Pro system kept crashing and rebooting. It would get to the desktop
and then restart.

He described what he saw was a red circle with a white cross in the system
tray - pc may have been in safe mode by then - anyone know what that icon
might be?

Anyway...

He thought he'd restore the partition from a recent PQ drive image backup -
which was stored on another partition on the same drive (uh oh... I hear you
say).

He rebooted using the PQ drive image boot discs and got "partition not
recognised" and a single yellow bar along the top! ie just the primary
drive with no extended partition /logical drives. I cant recall what a
yellow coloured partition represents.

So assuming the data is still there somewhere are there any utilities which
can recover the partitions?

My brother is bringing over his PC tonight so I'm hoping to gather together
enough info to try and salvage his data and restore the system.

I think the drive is a WD1200JB or WD2500JB.

Thanks a lot for any info.

Ian

 

[Svend Olaf Mikkelsen]

My brother is bringing over his PC tonight so I'm hoping to gather together
enough info to try and salvage his data and restore the system.

You can download Findpart for DOS at

http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm

do from boot to a DOS floppy:

findpart all fp.txt

and mail me the file fp.txt.

 

[Ian Roberts]

You can download Findpart for DOS at

http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm

do from boot to a DOS floppy:

findpart all fp.txt

and mail me the file fp.txt.

Hi Svend

I really appreciate your offer to help however I'm very pleased (and
relieved) to report that I have managed to fix it.

I'm now a BIG fan of Partition Table Doctor which saved the day. Very
impressed with it.

Once I had created a PTD boot disc it recognised the error right away, asked
if I wanted to correct it I said yes - restarted the machine and hey presto
all back to normal. The best $49 we've spent in ages!!!!

Prior to using PTD I downloaded the trial version of Acronis Disk Director
Suite 9.0 - again I created a boot disc and ran it. DDS seemed to think
that my brothers PC had dynamic disc drives set up which it didnt support.
Thats as far as we got with that!!!

So a big cheer for PTD!!

Thanks again

Regards

Ian

 

[wemaole]

Dear Mr./Mrs,

Thank you very much. We are glad to see that Partition Table
Doctor can help you. It's honor to us too.

To tell your friends who have the same problem the good news.
We thank you very much. And your friends will thank you, too.
_________________
http://www.ptdd.com

 

[Cl.Massé]

Dear Mr./Mrs,

Thank you very much. We are glad to see that ********* *****
***** can help you. It's honor to us too.

To tell your friends who have the same problem the good news.
We thank you very much. And your friends will thank you, too.

Sounds like a sucking commercial trick. Is it possible, in less than 24h,
to find the right software, plausibility by buying and trying several others
at about 49$?

Please, those who answer the questions here are volunteers, they have a life
that they don't want to be wasted for the benefit of greedy persons.

My friends will be advised to avoid a product that rely on publicity rather
than quality, and therefore to choose the direct competitor Acronis Disk
Director Suite 9.0, which at least has a free trial version.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Sounds like a sucking commercial trick. Is it possible, in less than 24h,
to find the right software, plausibility by buying and trying several others
at about 49$?

Please, don't give the spammer another reason to spam some more.

 

[Ian Roberts]

Dear Mr./Mrs,

Thank you very much. We are glad to see that ********* *****
***** can help you. It's honor to us too.

To tell your friends who have the same problem the good news.
We thank you very much. And your friends will thank you, too.

Sounds like a sucking commercial trick. Is it possible, in less than 24h,
to find the right software, plausibility by buying and trying several
others
at about 49$?

Please, those who answer the questions here are volunteers, they have a
life
that they don't want to be wasted for the benefit of greedy persons.

My friends will be advised to avoid a product that rely on publicity
rather
than quality, and therefore to choose the direct competitor Acronis Disk
Director Suite 9.0, which at least has a free trial version.
[/QUOTE]

Hey!

I know this might come across like a cheap shot at getting free publicity
for PTD however I can absolutely assure you as best I can through this
limited medium that my post IS genuine!

Go get Acronis Disk Director if you want. I can only report that in this
instance it didnt work for us and PTD saved the day.

YMMV.

Cheers

Ian

 

[Duncan Allan]

You are very mistaken as this was not a cheap trick but an honest answer to
a VERY real problem as it was MINE.

Perhaps when you find a product that does the job in an emergency and, will
do what it says for very little cost and not overpriced commercialware then
it would be useful and helpful to others to let them know.

Yes there is plenty of Spam around and it annoys me too but this was a
genuine case that had the solution posted to this NG by means of a follow-up
for your benefit which is what I understood NG's were about.

Duncan

 

[Ge]

Sounds like a sucking commercial trick.
Maybe...

Is it possible, in less than 24h, to find the right software,
plausibility by buying and trying several others at about 49$?

Let's see... the OP searched for solutions online (I'm sure I can come up
with a few options within 20 min), read through them and selected at least
two (maybe 30 min), tried out one unsuccessfully (maybe another 30 min),
tried out the second choice and fixed his partitions (probably also some 30
min, not counting fixing the computer afterwards).

Should be possible in 24h, at least looking at it from where I sit. Maybe
time runs differently where you sit

Of course, it still may be a commercial trick. But who's telling me you are
serious? -- Just take it for what it is.

Gerhard

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

You are very mistaken as this was not a cheap trick but an honest answer to
a VERY real problem as it was MINE.

Perhaps when you find a product that does the job in an emergency and, will
do what it says for very little cost

and not overpriced commercialware

But it *is* overpriced commercial ware.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Let's see... the OP searched for solutions online (I'm sure I can come up
with a few options within 20 min), read through them and selected at least
two (maybe 30 min), tried out one unsuccessfully (maybe another 30 min),
tried out the second choice and fixed his partitions (probably also some 30
min, not counting fixing the computer afterwards).

Should be possible in 24h, at least looking at it from where I sit. Maybe
time runs differently where you sit

Of course, it still may be a commercial trick. But who's telling me you are
serious? -- Just take it for what it is.

So, how many positive reviews can you find about PTDD *before* this
apparent SUCCES story?
And how many more to offset all the negative ones?

 

[Ge]

So, how many positive reviews can you find about PTDD *before* this
apparent SUCCES story?
And how many more to offset all the negative ones?

I don't know how many I could find if I were looking for them. But I also
would assume that any product can have one success -- and that's exactly
what this could have been. Not more, not less.

What's your problem?

Gerhard

 

[Joep]

I don't know how many I could find if I were looking for them. But I also
would assume that any product can have one success -- and that's exactly
what this could have been. Not more, not less.

What's your problem?

Gerhard

He's a frusto

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

That he went with it against all odds and reported a success.
Very unbelievable.

He's a frusto

O look, the little troll that yelled the hardest for wemaole to **** off
is pretending he doesn't mind.

 

[Joep]

That he went with it against all odds and reported a success.
Very unbelievable.


O look, the little troll that yelled the hardest for wemaole to **** off
is pretending he doesn't mind.

No, I just added the info that you're a frusto