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Partition has vanished...help!!

  • 31-10-2006 06:52PM
    #1
    artvandulet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭


    Howeyis, I consider myself quite adept with PC's but I'm stumped on this one. Anyone any ideas??

    My Hard drive is 250Gb. I have it partitioned into 3. 1x 5 Gb FAT32 partition which is my recovery partiton. 1x 145gb NTFS sytem drive and 1 x 100gb NTFS media drive. The other day my 100Gb media drive just vanished! Now my hard drive only shows 150Gb total space if I view it in Disk Management. Same if I run Partition Magic or Paragon Partition or several other Partition programs I've tried. I tried recovering a lost or deleted partiton with these programs but no joy. I've defragged, error checked etc.
    The thing is, I know its still there as 100Gb is missing from my drive.
    I've tried an undelete file program which did find some of the files but wouldn't recover any more hard drive space. I'm running thin on ideas!

    Any one have a suggestion?? It would be much appreciated!


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    gpart on many good linus boot cd's will guess the partition unless you happen to have the exact numbers to hand.

    http://www.s-t-d.org


  • #3
    Anti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    Worth a check.

    Go into your bios, and make sure 48bit lba is enabled.

    I have seen this before. And this sorted it. but all data was lost.


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