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Lost partitions on SATA drive
Hi.
I've got a computer with 4 sata hdd drives connected to them, and the computer started to play up a little when I installed an update to windows XP from the xp updates site for the raid controller. It kept coming up with a bsod with an error I can't remember (think it was something like IO_REQUEST_ERROR or something like that). This is the setup of the drives I've got: HDD1 - 6 partitions HDD2 - 1 partition HDD3 - 1 partition HDD4 - 1 partition Anyway, I decided to try and set the drives up in a raid situation, wondering if this would work? So I went into the bios, changed the disk type to raid instead of ide (as my bios allows), and then restarted. Upon restarting, i loaded up the raid software, and created a striped raid set (I think that was what it was called). I loaded up the machine, and it didn't boot up. So then went back into the bios software, deleted this raid set and created a mirror raid set. booted up, still nothing. got the "please insert a boot disk" error message. so I deleted the raid set again, and left it as blank, and still nothing. then I went to the bios again, and changed the disk type to other media. this loaded up to the raid software again, but still didn't boot. i never made any changes to the raid sets. went back to the bios, and put it back to ide type. then restarted. still no joy with booting (need a boot disk still!). So I think that I will need to re-install windows XP again. insert the xp disk, and it loads up. come to the bit where it asks me to select the partition to install to, and only the partition labels of disk 3 & 4 are showing! So by the looks of it, the partitions of disk 1 and 2 have been deleted?!?!? So my question is, is it possible to recover the partitions and all the data on them? I haven't written anything onto the disks at all since I did it. So what is the best thing for me to do to have the best fighting chance of recovering the partitions and all my data? Hopefully someone can help me out on this Thanks in advance David |
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You're in big trouble pal ;-) Call in an expert and explain in much
greater and precise detail, than you have here, exactly what you have done. You may just be in with a chance, but I doubt it. You can't just switch between raid and non raid configurations; time to get the backups out - you do have backups don't you? -- Mark=B2=B3 Cheers for the well worth it msg... If you can give me greater detail, then you know that I'd appreciate it!!! |
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Greetings,
I suppose Active@ Undelete can help you, because it's restore methods are really great. Try it indeed, u won't regret it. http://www.active-undelete.com/ |
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OK, I've used Active@ Partition Recovery, which has recovered the large
partition on disk 2, but on disk 1 there are 6 partitions. Therefore, i have an extended partition to allow me to create more drives. when I can with active@ Partition recovery, it only recovers the drives it finds as logical drives, not extended. So is there any way for it to be able to recover the extended partion, and the the drives from within that partition? Or is there any other software which can find the drives??? Cheers. David |
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OK, I think that it is all sorted now
I ran into a little program called "testdisk" which checked the disk, and found all the partitions (including extended) and wrote them back to the disk... Not too sure as to whether all the data is still there or not though! I've got to go through a task or re-installing windows, as it looks as though it is about to load it ok, but it doesn't load anything and hangs. so it could be that the boot is messed up, or that it hasn't recovered the data. so I'm about to reinstall xp and find out... Hopefully it's just that the boot up is messed up! If not, I guess it's a case of trying to recover all the lost data!!! |
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