Windows XP forum: Partition Gone

What was the backup plan? Even without such procedures, hard disks stop spinning or go empty daily. "Important" data is worth a backup. And if a person doesn't, it usually means they have ignored others telling them about backup and just learn the hard way.

Just wondering why one would do all this and not have a backup. The procedure screams "Danger."

-> PowerQuest has a support line which is best called if you have no backup since they know what their software does.

Bob

1. you did create the emergency/restore diskettes when you installed partiton magic right? If not, create the diskettes from the options in pqmagic.

If you know what the drive was before i.e. 2 primary partitions and 1 extended partition with 2 volumes in the extended partiton.. and know where the bad volume was then the data will still be there but the partition identifier will be incorrect and thus be invisible to the operating system.

All you have do do is use the partition editor (ptedit I believe) and change the volume type (id) to the previous type i.e. 07 for ntfs, 0B (hex) 11 decimal for Fat32 ending <1024 boundary, 0C(hex) 12 decimal for fat32>1024 ending past cylinder boundary

Recently I have tried to make another partition in my F: partition having 100GB.Suppply failure occured during the transfer of data made a PqRP partition in my hard disc having 500GB.I have some urgent data on the partition.My con figuration is AMD Athelon X2 64,Asus M3N 78 EM,500 GB Seagate,2GB RAM.First time I have 5 partitions of 100GB each. Please help me to recover the data from the PqRP partition.