windows partition ‘vanished’ – ‘disappeared’ all on a sudden!

[Manojit Chattopadhyay]

windows partition ‘vanished’ – ‘disappeared’ all on a sudden.

Dear troubleshooter,

I ran FDISK from command prompt – while win98 was running! to create a second logical partition, which was to enable 10 more Gb of disk space. That amount of disk space was left un-partitioned – when I created my first partition to define D drive. Thought of installing Linux Operating System later in that free space.

I had C: drive – 10Gb
D: drive – 20Gb
Left free – 10Gb

Now, while running FDISK, I pressed option (1) and then (3) [thinking that I’ll create a new logical partition]
It said – “no logical partition is defined” and started checking the integrity of the system immediately!
Scared me – not being able to close FDISK – closed the command prompt window!
Next time I started the PC, and realized my D drive disappeared! with all my research data and songs and what not!! I simply can’t afford to lose those data...

Anybody there to help me as quickly as possible to retrieve my D drive data? I’m really in a tough situation...

Thanks a lot to my sincere troubleshooter.

-Manojit

PS: I would like to enable the left out 10Gb Disk Space as well.


[This message has been edited by Manojit Chattopadhyay (edited 01-22-2002).]

[sea69]

make sure to NOT run scandisk or defrag until you can try to unerase your data!!


see this (http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2F1999%2Fs1008%2F06s0 8%2F06s08%2Easp)

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[This message has been edited by sea69 (edited 01-23-2002).]

[Steve]

Hi M.C.,

If this is REAL important data, check out this google link.

http://www.google.com/search?q=data+recovery&hl=en&start=10&sa=N

It'll give you more choises than you need. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

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[mjc]

Here (http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/rescue/index.html#download) is a freeware disk recovery program...it says on the ohme page that it can

Find any lost and deleted data on your drive (e.g. hard disk) even if the partition table is lost or the hard disk has been quick-formatted
Lost Data, that is the result of a system crash can also be recovered



I have tried it out and it works quite nicely for simple file recovery...haven't tried it on something as complicated as a complete drive recoery.....


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