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kasti
Hello, my name is Andrés (from Colombia, SouthAmerica). The last week
I
was trying to get some space for a new extended partition (to install
RedHat-Linux beside my SuSE-Linux / WinXP partitions) so i used
"Partition Magic" (from the diskette version (i think v8)) which I
have
used repeatedly before and have found very worth for these procedures
in
all last years.
The problem is that my home got a power-cut in the middle of a
move/resize procedure of my data-partition (a 31+MB FAT-32 partition)
and
when I checked out again later the partition was reported as a "PqRP"
partition and the data was unrecoverable (but readable as garbage-data
when I mount it (read-omly) in my SuSE-Linux).
Doing some research in the internet i found a FAQ page about this
problem
in http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/~tkuurstra/PqRPFAQ.txt, in these
pages is mentioned that if the procedure was at a -10% the problem
would be
resolved using the "ptedit" utility by Powerquest but as i remember
the
last time i saw the display the percentage was about 41% so I haven`t
tried this trick in the hope to avoid make things worse.
Also, in this FAQ i found this group listed so as i'm currently stuck
in the problem i guess that my only option is to ask anyone for some
help. I have to say that i would be absolutely grateful if anyone can
bring some time and expertise to help me recover at least some of my
data -including my thesis :-(
As it is not possible to make attachments in the lists (and i am at mt
work place) i would attach later the output of some
helpful/informative utilities ("findpart" , "pqrp" and "partinfo" )
if someone ask me.
Again, any piece of help would be HUGEly appreciated!
Thanks, Kasti :-(
p.s. please excuse my english redaction, this is not my native
language
I
was trying to get some space for a new extended partition (to install
RedHat-Linux beside my SuSE-Linux / WinXP partitions) so i used
"Partition Magic" (from the diskette version (i think v8)) which I
have
used repeatedly before and have found very worth for these procedures
in
all last years.
The problem is that my home got a power-cut in the middle of a
move/resize procedure of my data-partition (a 31+MB FAT-32 partition)
and
when I checked out again later the partition was reported as a "PqRP"
partition and the data was unrecoverable (but readable as garbage-data
when I mount it (read-omly) in my SuSE-Linux).
Doing some research in the internet i found a FAQ page about this
problem
in http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/~tkuurstra/PqRPFAQ.txt, in these
pages is mentioned that if the procedure was at a -10% the problem
would be
resolved using the "ptedit" utility by Powerquest but as i remember
the
last time i saw the display the percentage was about 41% so I haven`t
tried this trick in the hope to avoid make things worse.
Also, in this FAQ i found this group listed so as i'm currently stuck
in the problem i guess that my only option is to ask anyone for some
help. I have to say that i would be absolutely grateful if anyone can
bring some time and expertise to help me recover at least some of my
data -including my thesis :-(
As it is not possible to make attachments in the lists (and i am at mt
work place) i would attach later the output of some
helpful/informative utilities ("findpart" , "pqrp" and "partinfo" )
if someone ask me.
Again, any piece of help would be HUGEly appreciated!
Thanks, Kasti :-(
p.s. please excuse my english redaction, this is not my native
language