Partioning with PM 8 gone bad

[Tiny Tim]

Hello,

my brother in law contacted me with the following problem:

he started to make a rearrangement of partitions on 2 harddrives: a 40 Gig
drive which was his master with C: and som additional partitions and a 160
Gig drive as a slave with several partitions also. Both drives had a lot of
data on them. During the repartition at about 20% the process stopped, with
no failuremessage. After a forced reboot, he was unable to get into Windows
XP. He reformatted the 40 gig drive and reinstalled WinXP through his sons
computer. Now he has a working computer again on the 40 gig drive. The 160
gig drive though, although visible in device manager correctly, does not
show up in Explorer. So he cannot access his data.

Has anybody any advice on how he can make the drive accessible again?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Tinytim

 

[Svend Olaf Mikkelsen]

Hello,

my brother in law contacted me with the following problem:

he started to make a rearrangement of partitions on 2 harddrives: a 40 Gig
drive which was his master with C: and som additional partitions and a 160
Gig drive as a slave with several partitions also. Both drives had a lot of
data on them. During the repartition at about 20% the process stopped, with
no failuremessage. After a forced reboot, he was unable to get into Windows
XP. He reformatted the 40 gig drive and reinstalled WinXP through his sons
computer. Now he has a working computer again on the 40 gig drive. The 160
gig drive though, although visible in device manager correctly, does not
show up in Explorer. So he cannot access his data.

Has anybody any advice on how he can make the drive accessible again?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Tinytim

One option is to download Findpart at

http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm

do:

findpart all fp.txt

and mail me the file fp.txt.

Among other options would be to copy data to a third disk or a network
drive using a recovery program. Before that is attempted, it should be
verified that XP service pack 1 is installed to support disks larger
than 128 GB.

If partitions are internally damaged by Partition Magic, I suggest the
Findpart solution.

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hello,

my brother in law contacted me with the following problem:

he started to make a rearrangement of partitions on 2 harddrives: a 40 Gig
drive which was his master with C: and som additional partitions and a 160
Gig drive as a slave with several partitions also. Both drives had a lot of
data on them. During the repartition at about 20% the process stopped, with
no failuremessage. After a forced reboot, he was unable to get into Windows
XP. He reformatted the 40 gig drive and reinstalled WinXP through his sons
computer. Now he has a working computer again on the 40 gig drive. The 160
gig drive though, although visible in device manager correctly, does not
show up in Explorer. So he cannot access his data.

Has anybody any advice on how he can make the drive accessible again?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Not much help here, but I had several PM operations going bad
on me so far. The warning to back up all your data before is
not something to ignore.

With backup PM is a nice tool that usually works fine.

For your concrete problem, I suspect that it requires a person
experienced with this type of failure and special tools. That
means professional data recovery services. Ask around, sort of
a list (predefined search queries) is e.g. here:

http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/olh_adp.php?p_faqid=719

Many of these companies will give you a price quote when you
describe the problem. I would think that this type of problem
happens frequently enough to be a standard procedure for
data recovery companies.

Arno

 

[Anomaly]

Hello,

my brother in law contacted me with the following problem:

he started to make a rearrangement of partitions on 2 harddrives: a 40 Gig
drive which was his master with C: and som additional partitions and a 160
Gig drive as a slave with several partitions also. Both drives had a lot
of
data on them. During the repartition at about 20% the process stopped,
with
no failuremessage. After a forced reboot, he was unable to get into
Windows
XP. He reformatted the 40 gig drive and reinstalled WinXP through his sons
computer. Now he has a working computer again on the 40 gig drive. The 160
gig drive though, although visible in device manager correctly, does not
show up in Explorer. So he cannot access his data.

Has anybody any advice on how he can make the drive accessible again?

Has he tried accessing it via the Disk Management snap in? The steps to get
there are:

1) Right Click on the My Computer Icon
2) Left click on "Manage"
3) Storage\Disk Management.


anom

 

[Tiny Tim]

One option is to download Findpart at

http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm

do:

findpart all fp.txt

and mail me the file fp.txt.

Among other options would be to copy data to a third disk or a network
drive using a recovery program. Before that is attempted, it should be
verified that XP service pack 1 is installed to support disks larger
than 128 GB.

If partitions are internally damaged by Partition Magic, I suggest the
Findpart solution.

Thank you Svend Olaf,

we'll use findpart and mail you the results.

Regards

 

[Tiny Tim]

Has he tried accessing it via the Disk Management snap in? The steps to get
there are:

1) Right Click on the My Computer Icon
2) Left click on "Manage"
3) Storage\Disk Management.


anom

I don't know, I'll ask him,

thank you for your reaction.

Regards

 

[Svend Olaf Mikkelsen]

For your concrete problem, I suspect that it requires a person
experienced with this type of failure and special tools. That
means professional data recovery services. Ask around, sort of
a list (predefined search queries) is e.g. here:

The problem was solved by me. I can confirm that I have a good
price/performance rate in such cases.