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Unable to access one of four partitions, help desired
Hi to all,
Starting with the subject line, I'll elaborate a bit. I have an older system with 3 hard drives. And the problem is on the third drive. It does not have an OS on it, only four Logical partitions in an Extended partition. It is a Maxtor 80 GB drive, with the first 3 partitions as FAT 16, of 2 GB each. The 4th partition is FAT 32 and makes up the remainder of the entire 80 GB. Just to include as much information as might be useful, these four partitions are K, L, M, and N in that order. Although this may or may not be useful, I do utilize a Dual boot setup on the first hard drive, one using Win98SE and the other Win2000 Pro. Here is the problem. Several days ago, something happened and corrupted the L partition on this 3rd hard drive. Although this may not be important or even factual, this corruption "seemed" to coincide with something unusual occurring with Zone Alarm. Both Windows see the L partition there, in the correct position, but they show it as "inaccessible" when viewed with Explorer. Partition Magic 8.0 shows it as Unformatted. Even though it's only 2 GB in size, it contains all the files I downloaded over the past 10 months, many of which I no longer know what they were. There are also many patches I collected for other programs stored there, over a much longer period. Since the other three partitions are still functional, and easily accessible - I decided to copy these over to a new 120 GB HDD which I had recently purchased. After formatting it and partitioning it similar to the 80 GB one (except the 4th partition was now larger than on the 80), I copied the contents from each to its namesake on the new one. And they are now equally accessible as on the original. Of course the L partition is empty in both. My goal is to find some way to recover everything on the original L partition, and then copy these to the new one. With the new copy available, the only thing now at risk is what's on (but inaccessible) on the old L partition. What suggestions can you experts out there offer me? Thanks in advance Olin McDaniel |
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Unable to access one of four partitions, help desired
Olin K. McDaniel wrote:
Hi to all, Starting with the subject line, I'll elaborate a bit. I have an older system with 3 hard drives. And the problem is on the third drive. It does not have an OS on it, only four Logical partitions in an Extended partition. It is a Maxtor 80 GB drive, with the first 3 partitions as FAT 16, of 2 GB each. The 4th partition is FAT 32 and makes up the remainder of the entire 80 GB. Just to include as much information as might be useful, these four partitions are K, L, M, and N in that order. Although this may or may not be useful, I do utilize a Dual boot setup on the first hard drive, one using Win98SE and the other Win2000 Pro. Here is the problem. Several days ago, something happened and corrupted the L partition on this 3rd hard drive. Although this may not be important or even factual, this corruption "seemed" to coincide with something unusual occurring with Zone Alarm. Both Windows see the L partition there, in the correct position, but they show it as "inaccessible" when viewed with Explorer. Partition Magic 8.0 shows it as Unformatted. Even though it's only 2 GB in size, it contains all the files I downloaded over the past 10 months, many of which I no longer know what they were. There are also many patches I collected for other programs stored there, over a much longer period. Since the other three partitions are still functional, and easily accessible - I decided to copy these over to a new 120 GB HDD which I had recently purchased. After formatting it and partitioning it similar to the 80 GB one (except the 4th partition was now larger than on the 80), I copied the contents from each to its namesake on the new one. And they are now equally accessible as on the original. Of course the L partition is empty in both. My goal is to find some way to recover everything on the original L partition, and then copy these to the new one. With the new copy available, the only thing now at risk is what's on (but inaccessible) on the old L partition. What suggestions can you experts out there offer me? Try Easy Recovery Pro. It aint free. |
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Unable to access one of four partitions, help desired
I suggest you use data recovery software such as EASEUS Data Recovery
Wizard to recover files. Download demo version: http://www.easeus.com/download.htm You can use "AdvancedRecovery" to scan your corrupted partition. After the scan is complete, the lost file will be displayed in Data Recovery Wizard, you can select them and recover them. |
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