get deleted partisions back?

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I lost the mainpart of my harddrive because of doing things I did not know
about.It's a 80
gb ibm drive that shrinked to 8 gb that can be seen.I wander,is there any
way to restore
deleted partisions.It's not the data or files I care for it's the former
size of my harddrive.
And I'm not to happy about replacing it as I'm short of money at the
moment.Any information on the subject
will be greatly appreciated.
al
 
I lost the mainpart of my harddrive because of doing
things I did not know about.It's a 80 gb ibm drive that
shrinked to 8 gb that can be seen.I wander, is there
any way to restore deleted partisions.It's not the data
or files I care for it's the former size of my harddrive.
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The simplest approach is to just run clearhdd on the
drive and partition it and format it how you want it.
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/clearhdd.htm
 
well it was not that good as it just formatted the 8 gb I have and I had to
install operationsystem again.
al
 
well it was not that good as it just formatted the 8
gb I have and I had to install operationsystem again.
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The two main possibilitys is that it needed a
bios overlay to work in that motherboard, or
you somehow managed to short stroke the drive.

You provided so little info about the system and what
you did that its not possible to say what you did.

How old is the system the drive is used in ?
 
Hi rod
I have a Asus A7N8X delux and I had a clean xp corp install.Then I wanted to
install win 98 on a new partition
that I was letting partitionMagic to create.I configured it to make a new
partition between C and D in my then
present C.D.E-F configuration.Somehow something went wrong and it created a
new parti. after F instead.and for some reason after trying a restore my
operativesystem ended up on G!What was left of former C had some parts of
win 98 on it but it was messy allright.It did not help that much that I was
very tired from no sleep but then I decided to delete all partitions
and format and start all over again.Then finding out when running f-disk
that the only part that it could see was the former c
and 8gb.I don't care so much for the data but I care for the size of my
harddrive and how to get the missing 73 gb back.
If you have any ideas let me know.
regards al
 
I have a Asus A7N8X delux
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OK, that doesnt need a bios overlay to do past 8GB.
and I had a clean xp corp install.Then I wanted to install win
98 on a new partition that I was letting partitionMagic to create.
I configured it to make a new partition between C and D in my
then present C.D.E-F configuration. Somehow something
went wrong and it created a new parti. after F instead.
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You should have been able to change the drive
letters in XP after the new one had showed up as F.
and for some reason after trying a restore my
operative system ended up on G! What was left
of former C had some parts of win 98 on it but it
was messy allright. It did not help that much that I
was very tired from no sleep but then I decided to
delete all partitions and format and start all over again.
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Fine, that should certainly have worked.
Then finding out when running f-disk that the only
part that it could see was the former c and 8gb.
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OK, thats your problem, you're using the older fdisk
which doesnt report the size of drives over 64GB
properly. It reports the size over 64GB instead
which is close enough to the numbers you are seeing.
I don't care so much for the data but I care for the size
of my harddrive and how to get the missing 73 gb back.
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If you have any ideas let me know.
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You dont actually need to use fdisk at all. Just run clearhdd
on the drive again to be completely bulletproof, check that
the drive is reported as the full size in the black bios screen
at boot time. Boot the XP CD and proceed to install XP again.

XP will allow you to partition the drive how
you want it very early in the XP install.

If you want to create another partition for Win98 after
you have installed XP on a partition thats less than the
whole drive, you can use the latest version of fdisk from
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=263044
 
Hi Rod
Happy days are here again.I used partition magic diskettes on dos
and it found the lost space .So my harddrive is safe and I got a new
one that I bought after losing faith in this case.I think it was very kind
of you to spend time and knowledge om me and I'm very greatfull.
And thank's for the new fdisk it was just about time I got that one.
cheers man and have a nice day.
al
 
Hi Rod
Happy days are here again.I used partition magic diskettes on dos
and it found the lost space .So my harddrive is safe and I got a new
one that I bought after losing faith in this case.I think it was very kind
of you to spend time and knowledge om me and I'm very greatfull.
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No problem, thats what these technical newsgroups are all about.
And thank's for the new fdisk it was just about time
I got that one. cheers man and have a nice day.
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Looks like its going to be a soggy one actually.

Public holiday long weekend here, the town showday too.
It ALWAYS rains on at least one of the show days here |-)
 
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