Recover Lost Partition

[Robert McManaway]

Norton System Works 2005 has a utility called Go Back that did not advise
its users of the need to disable Windows System Restore. Unfortunately it
crashed in the middle of a "Go Back" providing a message
[gb_ui_support(1147)] and rendering the hard drive unaccessible.

The 160G drive had 4 partitions, with partition 0 as the C drive, and
D-E-and F thereafter. Each partition was 40G. Windows had to be
reinstalled on the drive, but it only reformatted and reinstalled to the 40G
C drive. How can I recover the other three 40G partitions - I have a 160G
drive that windows only sees 40G?

I understand that I can re-partition without losing the data still in the
partitions originally put on the drive when it was first installed. How???

Thx.

 

[Richard Urban]

You can not repartition an area where there were other partitions (now lost)
and expect to get back your information.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Robert;
Changing a partition results in loss of data unless a proper tool is
used.
The data may be recovered with a tool designed for that purpose:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/datrec.htm

 

[Rick]

Norton System Works 2005 has a utility called Go Back that did not advise
its users of the need to disable Windows System Restore. Unfortunately it
crashed in the middle of a "Go Back" providing a message
[gb_ui_support(1147)] and rendering the hard drive unaccessible.

The 160G drive had 4 partitions, with partition 0 as the C drive, and
D-E-and F thereafter. Each partition was 40G. Windows had to be
reinstalled on the drive, but it only reformatted and reinstalled to the 40G
C drive. How can I recover the other three 40G partitions - I have a 160G
drive that windows only sees 40G?

I understand that I can re-partition without losing the data still in the
partitions originally put on the drive when it was first installed. How???

Thx.

There are several utilities that will allow you do repartition you
drive. I choose Partition Magic. It is about 70.00 US but it is quick
and and easy.

Good luck,
Rick

 

[terrytree]

Hi,

Lost or deleted partition can be saved using 'partition table doctor
(http://www.ptdd.com/) Recovery tool.
It can easily restore lost partition, as it did for me before.
Really great tool, with awesome restore algorithms. Give it a try
Recommended


-
terrytre

 

[anno_triangle]

I've supposed to trust the only tools I use myself. It did happened the
situation when the partition was gone after PC reboot. I tried
Partition Recovery utility and that helped. The partition was back,
with it's data recovered. That tool can be forund amon other data utils
on a data set CD image Boot Disk.
http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm