NTFS partitions and Fdisk

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Hi,

I have a problem with this server that has (had) windows 2003 installed on a
20GB NTFS partition inside a 300GB hard disk (SCSI). The problem is that the
rest of the hard drive was not partitioned, and to do it, my partner used
fdisk from a Win98 boot disk. He sais that Fdisk recognized the 20GB
partition, but that it "forced" him to make a master DOS partition in order
to create an extended partition (which is what he really wanted to do in the
first place).
I cought him when this process was a 98% and sow ot reboot the system to a
"Missig operating system" error message.

My question is: Is there a way to recover the original partition to the
point it was before all this happened?

Thanks a lot in advance!!!
 
KAStigator said:
Hi,

I have a problem with this server that has (had) windows 2003 installed on a
20GB NTFS partition inside a 300GB hard disk (SCSI). The problem is that the
rest of the hard drive was not partitioned, and to do it, my partner used
fdisk from a Win98 boot disk. He sais that Fdisk recognized the 20GB
partition, but that it "forced" him to make a master DOS partition in order
to create an extended partition (which is what he really wanted to do in the
first place).
I cought him when this process was a 98% and sow ot reboot the system to a
"Missig operating system" error message.

My question is: Is there a way to recover the original partition to the
point it was before all this happened?
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Never use Fdisk...use disk management!!!!

If you don't have a backup...

Your best hope is to get a 3rd party file recovery utility and seee if there
is any recoverable data on the drive.
 
KAStigator said:
My question is: Is there a way to recover the original partition to the
point it was before all this happened?
Click to expand...

Something like Acronis Disk Director might be able to recover it for you...

Alex
 
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