Lost Partitions on NTFS

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Hello all

I have a VERY urgent need to recover a partition table on a 160GB WD
Hard Drive. AS far as what I was doing at the time, I was applying an
upgrade to my Roxio CD Creator, and it told me to reboot, at which
point it did not recognize any of the partitions on my secondary drive
whcih I had been using with no problem only minutes before. I also
Uninstalled a copy of Netscape 7.2 at the same time. The PC itself
recognizes that the drive is attached and says it is in good working
order, just no partitions. Needless to say I am about to have a heart
attack if I dont get this stuff back. I have seen a lot of recovery
tools out there, but dont want to make this worse by using a lame
recovery tool. Please let me know what my best options would be to
proceed from here, and if you need any further data. Thanks in
advance.

-Jim
 
One other thing. I ran Norton Antivirus to see if there was a problem
with that, and Norton told me that I had an "error on disk 2", and "Do
I want Norton Disk Doctor to search for Extended Dos partitions and
rebuild the Partition Table?" I did not know Norton could even do
this. For all I know it may have saved a copy of the MBR. I am wary
of Norton, but just wondering if anyone has ever tried this? Thanks
again.

-Jim
 
Ok, I ran the DiskPatch utility and it worked pretty well. I recovered
2 of 3 missing drives. The problem was when I rebooted, XP scandisk
saw the drive that I didnt recover and tried to delete all of what it
saw as corrupted files. It got through a lot of them before I could
stop it. Is there any way to recover what is on that other disk, or is
it now gone? Thanks

-Jim
 
Jim said:
One other thing. I ran Norton Antivirus to see if there was a problem
with that, and Norton told me that I had an "error on disk 2", and "Do
I want Norton Disk Doctor to search for Extended Dos partitions and
rebuild the Partition Table?" I did not know Norton could even do
this. For all I know it may have saved a copy of the MBR. I am wary
of Norton, but just wondering if anyone has ever tried this?
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