Crahsed When Creating Partition, Now Completly Unreadable... PartitionMagic 8

SubDude199

SubDude199

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I had a hard drive with some very important data on it. I wanted to create a seperate partition on it so I could back up all my stuff and reformat. my computer was gettin slow and I like to reformat every few months. so I used partition magic 8 wich I have used for a long time with no troubble to create a seperate partition on this drive. well, since my computer was running like crap it crashed about 1/4 way threw the process of ceating this partition.

I backed up all my stuff on a diffrent drive and reformated and now I am running very fast and clean.. so now when i installed this hard drive my computer boots very slow (proably because its trying to figure out this disk).. then when it boots 2 hard drives show in windoes.. the one i created (wich is way smaller than I wanted) and the original,but the name changed to "?m?"... I can open the new partition, but when i try to open the original one it just lock up.

when i go in partition magic 8 it shows the drive. but i cant do anything with it.

what is the best way to get that data off the drve?

is there a way i can reset the partitions?..

or should I just reformat it completly and try to run GetDataBack or a recovery proram to get them?

thanks
 
One fast way to get onto any MS partition is to boot up from a live Linux distro like Knoppix or ubuntu. From there you can copy anything off the partition to a safe location. The screen capture shows a copy in progress from an external usb drive onto an internal one.



For an effective drive tool GParted version 0.3.3.0 creates, resizes, deletes, moves MS as well as Linux primaries and extended quite well. After retrieving file from the effected drive you can easily use that to wipe and then simply create new partitions. You later use the Disk Management to see them formatted.

The 0.3.3.0 and previous 0.3.2.0 releases are found about 15 or 16 versions down the page at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828

The newer and appparently last so far platform independent 0.3.3.0 release loads up faster then the any of the previous versions like 0.2.5.1.1 upto 0.3.2.0. Apparently you are having a software problem with PM and GParted makes a great free alternative.

The main documentation for use is seen at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/generalities/gparted.htm Some additional screenshots are seen at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
 
well I tried that and couldnt get anything to work in there diffrently than PM8. so I said funk it and just formated it.. but pm8 wouldnt do it, it got an error, then windows couldnt do it either.. so I booted off a windows disk like I was going to load windws on the disk, let it format it.. and it took a long time. but it did it.. then I just restarted before it loaded any windoes files.. then I booted back up and ran GetDataBack and recovered all my files.. whew!
 
A live distro uses a different method there. It's a little awkward at first for going into the menu bar and opening the "system" item to show all drives. Once you click on one a desktop icon appears. From there you open up two windows in order to copy by highlighting and choosing copy from a drop down.

Once you are up in GParted you should readily be resize the existing partition provided there's enough free space available in order to see a second storage partition. If you have that 70% full of files/folders that doesn't usually go too well for a seeing a good sized secondary made up.

At least you were able to save the day there. But one thing to remember now is apparently the need to dump PM8 for GParted since that's a basic partitioning tool not seeing any software hangups.
 
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