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Recovering lost partitions.
Name: John Date: October 8, 2000 at 18:16:09 Pacific
Comment:
I HAD hard drives on my system. 1 6.4 gig Quantum Bigfoot and an 850 meg Maxtor. The Maxtor was partitioned for Linux and I decided to remove it to prepare for a system upgrade. The partition file was corrupted on the Quantum because it was the primary and there is only one partition viewable on the quantum now. I have tried to fdisk and it will only let me recover 472 meg. aparently that was one of my linux drives on the quantum. Please advise of any possible ways to proceed to recover these lost partitions.
Name: habnfunh Date: October 8, 2000 at 20:02:41 Pacific
Reply:
try fdisk again. this time take the option to view all partitions/drives. You may need to go and delete all of the logical and extended drives.When u format be sure to include a volumne label to assist in identifying which drive partition you are working with...
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Response Number 2
Name: jmatt Date: October 9, 2000 at 01:18:07 Pacific
Reply:
This utility may help .
http://www.geocities.com/prestonlewis/
Data Recovery.Zip ( Freeware )
Repairs hard drive damage from virus, fdisk problems, formatting mistakes, power failures and application errors. For FAT16 or FAT32.
Summary: Hi, I think I've got the same problem too, but I don't have access to another harddisk nor zipdisk and my C drive won't fit for the lost data. So, can anyone tell me how do I recover my partition ? Is...
Summary: I had three HD:s hooked up and I was removing partitions from the third drive using fdisk. Being a MS product fdisk did a little more than it was supposed to do, it messed up the partition table on al...
Summary: simply remove the partitions and add them again, lost partitions are not worth recovering, many times they will be currupted or fragmented. ...
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