Recovering a Partition

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Keith Russell

Hi, everyone.

Partition Magic hung as I was resizing a partition and I hadn't up having
to reboot. When all was said and done, I lost one of my partitions, which
Partition Magic now identifies as a "Partition Magic Recoverable"
partition, with no drive letter.

I ran R-Studio NTFS and was able to copy all files from the partition to
another location. R-Studio correctly identifies the partition as NTFS. I
used Partition Magic to assign a drive letter to the partition, but Windows
still does not find it.

Is there some way that I can make the partition accessible to Windows? I'm
not concerned about the risk of further damaging the partition, since I
have already saved the data, but I'm wondering if there's some way that I
can use a hex editor or some other method to make it available--as much for
the learning experience as anything else.

Does anybody know how I can do this?
 
Keith Russell said:
Hi, everyone.

Partition Magic hung as I was resizing a partition and I hadn't up having
to reboot. When all was said and done, I lost one of my partitions, which
Partition Magic now identifies as a "Partition Magic Recoverable"
partition, with no drive letter.

I ran R-Studio NTFS and was able to copy all files from the partition to
another location. R-Studio correctly identifies the partition as NTFS. I
used Partition Magic to assign a drive letter to the partition, but
Windows
still does not find it.

Is there some way that I can make the partition accessible to Windows? I'm
not concerned about the risk of further damaging the partition, since I
have already saved the data, but I'm wondering if there's some way that I
can use a hex editor or some other method to make it available--as much
for
the learning experience as anything else.

Does anybody know how I can do this?
Click to expand...

Since you said that your "not concerned about the risk", you might want to
boot up with your XP cd and go into the "Repair" mode and run "fixmbr". I'm
thinking that your boot record is incorrect.

Dave H.
 
Partition Magic hung as I was resizing a partition and I hadn't up having
to reboot. When all was said and done, I lost one of my partitions, which
Partition Magic now identifies as a "Partition Magic Recoverable"
partition, with no drive letter.

I ran R-Studio NTFS and was able to copy all files from the partition to
another location. R-Studio correctly identifies the partition as NTFS. I
used Partition Magic to assign a drive letter to the partition, but Windows
still does not find it.

Is there some way that I can make the partition accessible to Windows? I'm
not concerned about the risk of further damaging the partition, since I
have already saved the data, but I'm wondering if there's some way that I
can use a hex editor or some other method to make it available--as much for
the learning experience as anything else.

Keith:

Try dskprobe.exe from XP SP2 Support Tools:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;838079

Google on the exe file for info re: using it.
 
Since you said that your "not concerned about the risk", you might wantboot up with your XP cd and go into the "Repair" mode and run "fixmbr". I'm
thinking that your boot record is incorrect.

Dave:

Apparently the OP can boot the op system via the hard disk, which means the
MBR is ok.
 
Since you said that your "not concerned about the risk", you might want to
boot up with your XP cd and go into the "Repair" mode and run "fixmbr". I'm
thinking that your boot record is incorrect.
Click to expand...

Maybe I should clarify and say that I'm not concerned about the risk with
the problem partition. The rest of the system is another matter....
 
Apparently the OP can boot the op system via the hard disk, which means the
MBR is ok.
Click to expand...

The partition is actually the fifth partition on my second drive--not the
drive I boot from.
 
Keith said:
Partition Magic hung as I was resizing a partition and I hadn't up having
to reboot. When all was said and done, I lost one of my partitions, which
Partition Magic now identifies as a "Partition Magic Recoverable"
partition, with no drive letter.

I ran R-Studio NTFS and was able to copy all files from the partition to
another location. R-Studio correctly identifies the partition as NTFS. I
used Partition Magic to assign a drive letter to the partition, but Windows
still does not find it.

Is there some way that I can make the partition accessible to Windows? I'm
not concerned about the risk of further damaging the partition, since I
have already saved the data,
Click to expand...

In that case I would delete the partition and make a new one. In XP,
Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management, select Disk
Management and look lower right for the graphic of the drive. R-click
in the partition concerned, delete. Then r-click in the resulting
Unallocated (or possibly 'Free') space and create partition. that way
you are sure of something in a good state
 
Hi, everyone.

Partition Magic hung as I was resizing a partition and I hadn't up having
to reboot. When all was said and done, I lost one of my partitions, which
Partition Magic now identifies as a "Partition Magic Recoverable"
partition, with no drive letter.

I ran R-Studio NTFS and was able to copy all files from the partition to
another location. R-Studio correctly identifies the partition as NTFS. I
used Partition Magic to assign a drive letter to the partition, but Windows
still does not find it.

Is there some way that I can make the partition accessible to Windows? I'm
not concerned about the risk of further damaging the partition, since I
have already saved the data, but I'm wondering if there's some way that I
can use a hex editor or some other method to make it available--as much for
the learning experience as anything else.

Does anybody know how I can do this?
Click to expand...

Take another good look at it with PM...even do a check on it with PM.
Maybe its set to 'hidden'...or some other weird thing.

Good luck.


Have a nice one...

Trent

Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!
 
Does anybody know how I can do this?
Click to expand...

Also, make sure the letter you gave it thru PM doesn't conflict with a
drive letter given to one of your optical drives.


Have a nice one...

Trent

Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!
 
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