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I created a new partition, D: using pqmagic 5 in dos. I then formatted D in dos ie format d: this made my c drive the same size as the d drive, and makes the files on it inaccessable. The data is still shown in pqmagic, but anywhere else, the drive is smaller and empty. How can I get back the data?

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Sounds familiar !!! The problem is that M$ can't run properly on it's own filesystems !! You can try 2 things !!! 1) Turn on LBA in your BIOS for that disk (which works many times for me) 2) Boot from a linux CD, mount you C and /or d partition. Copy the data to a SAFE place and remove ALL partition, start over.

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