Partition Error

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binj112

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My friend recently tried to merge his two hard drive partitions in to one today (he has one hard drive) using Partition Magic 8.

He left it to work its magic but came back and found it had an error and to press any key. When he did the computer restarted and to his relief windows loaded to the desktop. But to his dismay on My Computer his partition with all; of his work, music and videos has gone. Below is the bottom bit of the log with the errors shown. Basically Im wondering if its gone forever or can it be retrieved back. (He didnt create a rescue disk).

Cheers

Ben

phyRead: Passed in buffer was not 8-byte aligned.NTFS Merge Left: [OFFSET2] error 1520
pqLogRead - Sector out of range: Sector=204812632, NumSects=8, PartNumSects=115346637.
NTFS_FILESYSTEM::UnInit failed writing MFT bitmap (Error 56)
pqLogUnlock (pqhandle == 0) ...
Partition is Quarantined. Release logical lock only.
pqLogUnlock complete (pqRet == PQ_OK)
ExecuteList: Error 1520 executing operation 1 of 1
TagBatchFileProcessed ... Error 1520 executing operation 1 of 1
pqLogLock (pqhandle == 0) ...
Partition is quarantined or dismounted. Set logical lock only.
pqLogLock complete (pqRet == PQ_OK)
pqFileOpen - File: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\PQ_BATCH.PQB. Used PQ I/O. Flags 0x104. Open succeeded.
pqLogUnlock (pqhandle == 0) ...
Partition is Quarantined.
Release logical lock only.
pqLogUnlock complete (pqRet == PQ_OK)

TagBatchFileProcessed complete (pqRet == 0).
 
No need to bump a thread so soon, but from reading that error it seems like the program "quarentined" that partition. What the size of your hard drive (include all partitions that you can see), and whats the space of your hard drive suppose to be?
 
disk is a 160GB Maxtor partitioned into C:\ which is 100GB and D:\ which WAS 60GB. but now i have C:\ at a 100GB and 60GB Unallocated space. and the data from D is gone.
 
data is still there. the file aloction table just says it isn't. I once recovered from something like this by manually editing the FAT table. Wasn't fun at all and I forget the specifics of how to do it. I would say Google file recovery software, but I'm sure someone here will post a link.
 
my drive is set to NTFS, does'nt that make it impossible to edit the FAT table?? any hints as to specfic software titles preferrably freeware? Bloody Partition magic :-(
 
No. The Fat table is the file allocation table. All file systems use one. Google file recovery software and do a search on these boards. I know it's been discussed more then a few times.
 
NTFS doesn't have a FAT. It has an MFT. Not that it matters too much, I just wanted to set the record straight.

To answer your question, I use Stellar Phoenix to recover data like that. It is very effective.
 
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