Lost extended partition.

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Andy

I have two hard drives on my system, the first is
partitioned at 4 Gb and contains my operating system (XP
Pro). The second contains all my data and application
files.

While I was restoring the OS partition (0) from a CD
backup something fouled up and I have lost the partition
info for the second partition, so now when I use disk
management in XP the drive appears as 'unallocated'.

The drive has not been re-formatted so the contents
should still be intact. Is there a way to restore this
partition to its original state, so that the applications
and data can be recovered.

If anyone could point me to the info to do this I would
be very grateful.

Thanks
 
Under the exact same circumstances I have used EasyRecovery Professional
from www.ontrack.com. I was able to recover 100% of my files. The key here
is that because the partition is not recognized, nothing can be written to
it - hence your data is there, and safe.
 
I had a similar instance happen to me just before Christmas. I attempted to use Ontracks Easyrecovery software to recover data on a HDD that a recovery software mistakenly chose to fdisk and format partially. While Ontracks software found all the files( and then some) it was unable to recover my finacial information correctly, namely Quicken backup files. I found a very easy and very FREE program to use called Testdisk. Testdisk found my old partition tables and was able to rewrite the 2nd partition's table. All of the information on my 2nd partition was exactly as it was before, including the Quicken files. This instance worked for me because I had everything backed up to my 2nd part. I also want to note that I was NOT using the Professional edition of Easyrecovery.

----- Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) wrote: -----

Under the exact same circumstances I have used EasyRecovery Professional
from www.ontrack.com. I was able to recover 100% of my files. The key here
is that because the partition is not recognized, nothing can be written to
it - hence your data is there, and safe.
 
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