Lost Partitions

Have a 300 GB drive that was partitioned into three separate drives. Came
back from vacation and the partitions are all gone. The drive still shows up
in the computer management / disk management console, but the entire drive
shows up as "unallocated". Is there a way to recover these partitions so
that I do not lose the data? The format was NTFS.

Terry

TDS wrote:
>
> Have a 300 GB drive that was partitioned into three separate drives.
> Came back from vacation and the partitions are all gone. The drive
> still shows up in the computer management / disk management console,
> but the entire drive shows up as "unallocated". Is there a way to
> recover these partitions so that I do not lose the data? The format
> was NTFS.

If you can remember (or wrote down) the original partitioning and
can recreate it exactly you have a chance. Otherwise, no.

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On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:16:25 -0400, "TDS" <Terry@Durbin.com>
wrote:

>Have a 300 GB drive that was partitioned into three separate drives. Came
>back from vacation and the partitions are all gone. The drive still shows up
>in the computer management / disk management console, but the entire drive
>shows up as "unallocated". Is there a way to recover these partitions so
>that I do not lose the data? The format was NTFS.
>
>Terry
>

Depends on why it's lost. I suggest that you not run this
system, leaving it turned off or at least that drive
unplugged until you are ready to try to recover the data, so
there is least amount of time/wear on it until then.

You might try software like EasyRecovery. It will take
hours trying to recover, and will need a 2nd drive in the
system (enough free space and a folder for that, not
necessarily an empty drive) to save anything it finds.

Otherwise, or if the data is valuable, you should contact a
data recovery center before proceeding.

TDS wrote:
>
> Have a 300 GB drive that was partitioned into three separate drives. Came
> back from vacation and the partitions are all gone. The drive still shows up
> in the computer management / disk management console, but the entire drive
> shows up as "unallocated". Is there a way to recover these partitions so
> that I do not lose the data? The format was NTFS.

Too bad you didnt have any good surge protection for your computer.

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TDS wrote:
> Have a 300 GB drive that was partitioned into three separate drives. Came
> back from vacation and the partitions are all gone. The drive still shows up
> in the computer management / disk management console, but the entire drive
> shows up as "unallocated". Is there a way to recover these partitions so
> that I do not lose the data? The format was NTFS.
>
> Terry
>
>

You need to find out how badly damaged the data on the disk is. If it is
'just' a corrupt partition table you may be able to recover some.

gpart (a linux tool) may be able to guess the partition table for you.

First try booting from a live cd (say Ubuntu) and see if the partitions
are recognised there - i.e. check first that it is not a windows issue
rather than a problem with the disk.

See what fdisk says about the partitions, or even see what the partition
table itself says. (You can even do this from within windows with a
program such as Winhex).

In <e56ed$467c0467$42a1daae$2011@FUSE.NET>, on 06/22/07
at 01:16 PM, "TDS" <Terry@Durbin.com> said:



>Have a 300 GB drive that was partitioned into three separate drives. Came
> back from vacation and the partitions are all gone. The drive still
>shows up in the computer management / disk management console, but the
>entire drive shows up as "unallocated". Is there a way to recover these
>partitions so that I do not lose the data? The format was NTFS.


Perhaps DFSEE can help with this. www.dfsee.com



Alan

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