Hard drive HELP!!!!

[skhips]

I have a partitioned fat 16 HDD running on NT4, the second partition is used to store temp images of other HDDs while they are been upgraded however during a lunch break the disk has either died or been Fdisked as when I click on the drive I get an error saying could not read.

I NEED to get this data back how do I recreate the partition, is it as simple as back into FDISK, and if so how ill I then get the data back.

Please Help, Anyone, Someone.

[Bill Russell]

Questions--

Is the drive actually running? (not powered down)

How many partitions do you have?

You cannot read the drive at all or only the partition with your
temp images?

[skhips]

two hard drives installed

hdd 1 partition 1 is c: fat 16 with dos 6.22
hdd 1 partition 2 is d: NTFS with NT4
hdd 1 partition 3 is e: Data fat 16

E: is corrupt, I can dual boot in dos and nt4 I can see E but it has lost its label (data) and cannot be opened at all, error occurs - drive not recognised or something like that (machine is at work)

Hope you can help.

[bassman]

Hello Skhips,
You can use the Fdisk utility to view partition info (selection 4, first screen), but if you repartition this disk, you will loose all data. See what the partition in question looks like in NT>disk manager. That should give some info as to what is wrong if the problem is detectable.
In your second post you say "2 hdd's" but you show the 3 partitions on 1.
What exactly do you mean by "Upgrade"?
Please clearafy exactly what you have and what has been done to all and I am sure we can help.
Lets hope you don't have to take this disk in to be read as that is some bucks


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[skhips]

Many thanks for your reply, I will check out all the exact info on the machine in work in the morning and post it tommorrow afternoon, (Well UK timings anyway).

And touch wood you will be able to help.

Feeling a little better now, I you can help I can post a face with a big teeth showing grin.

[skhips]

Felling down again !!

Some fool has re FDISKED the drive where all the data was without trying to plan the data recovery so situation now is,

O/S NT4
1st HDD has two partitions one for DOS 6.22(FAT 16) and one for NT4(NTFS)
2nd HHD one partition newly FDISKED and formatted (FAT 16)

Please tell me I can ressurect data off disk 2, Please!.

Many thaks for any help.

[mjc]

Only if you want to spend upto several hundred US dollars for it, there is now no easy way to recover it. THere are several utilities that can be downloaded, don't have any lnks handy but a search on Google will turn them up, or go to a data recovery company...but after a format the success rate is pretty low.

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[bassman]

AAARRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!
Sorry to hear that man.

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[skhips]

Many thanks for trying lads, I will just have to east humble pie to a user.

Thanks for the quick response.