Problem with PartitionMagic 8.0

[Bill]

After using PartitionMagic 8.0 on second drive to merge four logical disks
into two (e: and f: to e; and g: and h: to g the drives cannot be
accessed. I get a "drive not formatted" message when I attempt to open them.
Windows 2000 professional sp 4. PartitionMagic configuration report
follows. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bill
(e-mail address removed)


PowerQuest PartitionInfo 8.0 -- Windows NT/2000 Version
Date Generated: 10/14/03 23:49:33
Copyright (c)1994-2002, PowerQuest Corporation
Permission is granted for this utility to be freely copied so long
as it is not modified in any way. All other rights are reserved.

PowerQuest, makers of PartitionMagic(r), Drive Image(tm), and DriveCopy(tm),
can be reached at:
Voice: 801-437-8900
Fax: 801-226-8941
Web site: http://www.powerquest.com/support/
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)

General System Information:
Total Physical Memory (bytes): 267,943,936
Used Physical Memory: (bytes): 167,976,960
Maximum Page File Size: (bytes): 646,090,752
Current Page File Size: (bytes): 162,533,376



============================================================================
===============================
Disk Geometry Information for Disk 1: 2490 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63
Sectors/Track
Info: Disk Manager is installed on this drive.
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect
StartSect NumSects
============================================================================
===============================
0 0 80 0 1 1 07 441 254 63
63 40,001,787
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 0 80 0 1 1 07 2489 254 63 63 40001787

============================================================================
===============================
Disk Geometry Information for Disk 2: 9732 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63
Sectors/Track
Info: EZ-Drive is installed on this drive.
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect
StartSect NumSects
============================================================================
===============================
0 0 00 0 1 1 17 1023 254 63
63 81,931,437
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 0 00 0 1 1 17 5099 254 63 63 81931437
0 2 80 1023 1 1 06 1023 254 63
81,931,563 74,413,017
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 2 80 5100 1 1 06 9731 254 63 81931563 74413017



============================================================================
===============================
Partition Information for Disk 1: 19,532.2 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect
TotalSects
============================================================================
===============================
C: NTFS Pri,Boot 19,532.1 0 0 63
40,001,787


============================================================================
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Partition Information for Disk 2: 76,340.1 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect
TotalSects
============================================================================
===============================
E: Hidden NTFS Pri 40,005.6 0 0 63
81,931,437
NTFS Pri,Boot 36,334.5 0 2 81,931,563
74,413,017


============================================================================
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Boot Record for drive C: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 63, Type: NTFS)
============================================================================
===============================
1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 40001786
17. MFT Start Cluster: 4
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 2500111
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x01C3392376EA21C0
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55

============================================================================
===============================
Boot Record for drive E: (Drive: 2, Starting sector: 63, Type: NTFS)
============================================================================
===============================
1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 81931432
17. MFT Start Cluster: 4
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 2560355
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x0
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55

============================================================================
===============================
Boot Record for drive *: (Drive: 2, Starting sector: 81,931,563, Type:
NTFS)
============================================================================
===============================
1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 120616020 (0x7307454)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 74413016
17. MFT Start Cluster: 4835561
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 7068591
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x5638976E38974BBD
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55

 

[Joep]

After using PartitionMagic 8.0 on second drive to merge four logical disks
into two (e: and f: to e; and g: and h: to g the drives cannot be
accessed. I get a "drive not formatted" message when I attempt to open them.
Windows 2000 professional sp 4. PartitionMagic configuration report
follows. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bill
(e-mail address removed)

That's bad! The partinfo looks valid, that is no partition table errors, and
appearantly intact boot sectors, so no help there.
To one partition no drive letter is assigned, I doubt assigning one will
help, won't hurt to try though.

I have seen cases where the NTFS partitions sould still be accessed using
the free read-only NTFSDOS driver from www.sysinternals.com although Windows
claimed that the partitions needed formatting.

If that doesn't work you'll need specialized data recovery software like
iRecover (www.diydatarecovery.nl) to pull data of the partitions.