Partition lost

[GAURAV7777]

I was merging my two partitions last night with partition magic 8

and it was all working fine but at 99 progress partition magic gave error and now my one partiton has damaged its partiton table and is lost

windows can't read it it says it has raw file system

I need to somehow recover that partition (it contained all my mp3's over 5000 of them and lots of software)

Please can any one Advise some good Data recovery tools (freeware 's) ?

my partition had NTFS file system

[samxt]

What does partition magic show if you run it now and check the partitions? One partition with corruption, or two partitions, one good and one bad. did you try the process again? You may also want to run a complete scan-disk, enabling the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors before you try to use partition magic for such chores again, although it should be able to handle things like that, you just never know. Always keep a backup of your data somewhere else too. Always.

Edited October 4, 2004 by samxt

[GAURAV7777]

well my one partition is absolutely fine but as for my other partition it says its unformatted and windows disk managent console says it has raw file system

i didn't keep a backup otherwise i wouldn't be in this mess and regularly check my hard disks for errors but didn't do it before starting merging

Edited October 4, 2004 by GAURAV7777

[krmathis]

I rescued data from a friends partition with the help of GetDataBack once!

To bad its not freeware. :no:

[GAURAV7777]

ya i have tried getdataback and many other but all are sharewares i need a freeware that would do the job

[samxt]

here's some links I found to data recovery programs on google just to start, but I was hoping we could also recover from the mess partition magic made and and just get general access to the partition as before. Try the Disk Recovery one, as it says it can read from raw data. If I had your PC here, I would bet I could get you out of that mess, nothing is guaranteed.

Data recovery

Edited October 4, 2004 by samxt

[gazebee_]

specs?

[samxt]

If it is truly unformatted, then you would lose all data by reformatting, but if you do a quick format, most of your files may still be recoverable (using a file recovery tool) even after you get your partition back to normal.

[GAURAV7777]

samxt i think u are talking about the disk inspector on that page well i have tried and it can't even read my partition leave alone recovery

getdataback could read my partition but i can't recover my files in that shareware edition

gazebee2001

1.7 GHz p4

768 mb ram

80 gb 7200 rpm

40 gb (it has two partitions which i was merging and the one which is lost )

10 gb

[Xahid]

have you tried "Undelete Partition" option using Partition Magic !

If you can find "Winternals Admin Pack" boot disk on internet !

than u're lucky !!!

[GAURAV7777]

since that error hapened i am just touching that partion with these recover tools and i am not formating it or changing any thing until i am dead sure i can't recover it as i don't wanna dim my recovery chances by writing something to the disk

[theyarecomingforyou]

I had exactly the same problem... the ONLY tool for me that recovered anything was "Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS". You have to select an advanced scan and, if you want to leave it to complete, it will take several days (possibly a week) to recover; you will also need a blank harddrive with enough data to copy it onto.

PartitionMagic is deperately unreliable when it comes to partition merging... too many people have lost huge amounts of data trying it.

[GAURAV7777]

ya i had succesfully merged partitions with partition magic 7 but this version 8 has really taught me a lesson

well i already have a partition ready with enough space to recover it and i found a pack of getdataback on irc just downloading with a keygen

lets see if it works(i am hoping it works)

[GAURAV7777]

ok guys i recovered my partiton using getdataback for ntfs but now i have new problem

major portion of the data recovered is currupted like all the mp3's are merged with one another and all the pics and software are fully currupted

but some mp3 are fine but all id tags are gone and why did merge all the files up during recovery

[chrizy4u]

have u tried testdisk and mbrwork? i've used them a couple of time. they were good dos aps for recovering lost partition.

[GAURAV7777]

i have tried file scavenger 2.1 also but all are recovering files which are merged with each other

should i quick format the drive so as to erase the master file table and then try recovering ?

help me people