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HELP!! Partition Magic has destroyed everything!
If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!!
Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following: partition 1: 10 MB partition 2: 10 GB partition 3: 5 GB partition 4: 432 GB However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at all!!! Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very disasterous consequences! Chris |
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"cjm" wrote in message
... If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!! Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following: partition 1: 10 MB partition 2: 10 GB partition 3: 5 GB partition 4: 432 GB However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at all!!! Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very disasterous consequences! Restore from backup. Of course you did a backup before using partition magic, right? Michael |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:10:12 -0000, "cjm"
wrote: If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!! Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following: partition 1: 10 MB partition 2: 10 GB partition 3: 5 GB partition 4: 432 GB However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at all!!! Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very disasterous consequences! Chris Never use Partition Magic on a drive with valuable data before making backups. Partition Magic even suggests this in either the program or documentation. Run Partition Magic again to see what it finds. You have left out some info, did you start it up then let it run while sleeping so it's a mystery what happened? Have you rebooted the system yet (if not, do so)? Which Windows OS? If 2K/XP, go into Disk Management and see what shows up. Do NOT write to the drive(s) if you might be inclined to try running some sort of data recovery program to scavenge for lost data... but you would need another drive(s) to copy off whatever such a program could find. Ontrack's EasyRecovery is one such program but it's a bit pricey, I"m not sure what is the best bang for the buck... Powerquest did at one point release one version of Lost & Found as freeware (gave away free keys to any/all), though I don't know what it's capabilities or limitations are. You might Google search for the best product and pricing on this type of app. |
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"cjm" wrote in message ... If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!! Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following: partition 1: 10 MB partition 2: 10 GB partition 3: 5 GB partition 4: 432 GB However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at all!!! Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very disasterous consequences! Chris PM in the wrong hands is lethal and renowned for it. toy |
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For future attempts, you could check out DFSEE (www.dfsee.com.)
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:10:12 -0000, "cjm"
wrote: However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at all!!! Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very disasterous consequences! Chris A quick google on PqRP gives many links, including this one. http://club.cdfreaks.com/lite/t-77451.html "Sure enough, the G: is now a PGRP file system. And yes, I've read up on that... I understand that it's a Poerquest invention that prevents Windows from writing to the partition (Windows won't write to a file system it doesn't understand) so that the user can have time to recover the lost data. I've also read that it is not unusual for PM to take a long time to complete tasks, and that I should have tried the NUMLOCK key to see if the system was still responding.... but it's too late for that now. " HTH. -- Regards from Mike Barnard South Coast, UK. [To reply by email remove ".trousers" spamtrap from email address] |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:10:12 -0000 It was a dark and stormy night when
"cjm" wrote : If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!! Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following: partition 1: 10 MB partition 2: 10 GB partition 3: 5 GB partition 4: 432 GB However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at all!!! Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very disasterous consequences! Chris Bet you didn't buy it ;-) -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html remove obvious to reply Free original songs to download and,"BURN" :O) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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"cjm" wrote in message
... If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!! Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following: partition 1: 10 MB partition 2: 10 GB partition 3: 5 GB partition 4: 432 GB However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at all!!! Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very disasterous consequences! If you're in the UK try 08457 90 90 90, or log on to their web-site; http://www.samaritans.org.uk/ |
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cjm wrote:
If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!! Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following: partition 1: 10 MB partition 2: 10 GB partition 3: 5 GB partition 4: 432 GB However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at all!!! Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very disasterous consequences! Chris I boot from a LIVE CD of Knoppix3.6. Then, I mount the drives, and use QTParted to look at, move, and re-arrange partitions, on the fly, in minutes! http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/sto...347661,00.html If you are lucky, you could re-set the partitions to the original sizes, and recover all the data! http://knopper.net/knoppix And, help is here, at one of these 630+ LUGs: http://lugww.counter.li.org |
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got the same problem, and after booting in dos and loading pm8 from
dos command line it shows the partition as being a PQrP partitition all right but it has all the operations grayed out except delete and format. boy is that helpfull !!so not only does pm blow chunks to re partition your harddrive, it wont undo what it did. i guess im wondering why they even load from dos if it doesnt do anything. not ever going to use pm again. ive heard acronis is the way to go. "cjm" wrote in message ... If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!! Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following: partition 1: 10 MB partition 2: 10 GB partition 3: 5 GB partition 4: 432 GB However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at all!!! Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very disasterous consequences! Chris |
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