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| OLi_A |
exremely frustrated at the moment, stupid computer
i was going to repartition my c: drive to include a linux partition when i noticed that my other hard drive (e:) had 20gig of unallocated space (using powerquest partition magic)
so i set to allocate it to an ntfs partition and then merge the two and hit apply. windows reset and everything was going sweet when it displayed an error (cant remember what it said) and reset on me.
xp starts again and runs a scandisk which then shows all this corrupted nonsense and now explorer is reporting that the data is there (80 gig used) but it doesnt display the files!!
i viewed the drive with the norton system information and all the files were displayed but not in the correct directory structure (all of them were under e:\Found.000)
can anything be done to restore them and put them in their proper directories? |
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| G`Dave |
Typical of Partition Magic, I am constantly hearing stories of this program ing everything up in a serious way.
Not all bad though, it should be recoverable, I've tried alot of programs and I would have to recommend one Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS. If you have another hard drive with an OS on it then you can boot into that, install the program and recover the other drive but don't install it onto the corrupted drive, doing so will overwrite some of the data and then its completly gone.
If not, then you can use a handy little thing from this site:
http://www.ubcd4win.com/
Its a boot cd that acts as a mini version of windows, you can install programs onto it, including stellar pheonix, and it runs off a RAMdrive, which basically means it dosen't touch the hard drives at all.
Very useful, I wonder how i ever lived without one
Hope some of that is useful. |
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| OLi_A |
hey thanks for the reply
i decided to just do it manually and download anything i missed out on (just got cable) |
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| DaveBegic |
| partition magic? who needs flashy programs when there's stuff like f and gdisk available |
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| -=M=- |
| *sees the word "linux" and runs away* |
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| Matt Jay |
| quote: | Originally posted by OLi_A
i viewed the drive with the norton system information and all the files were displayed but not in the correct directory structure (all of them were under e:\Found.000)
can anything be done to restore them and put them in their proper directories? |
Found.000 is for chkdsk files, maybe scandisk determined all your files as farked and put them in that directory? :wtf:
I would try and backup as most files I can and then totally wipe the drive(s) and reinstall everything. |
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| eRRaTiK |
| quote: | Originally posted by -=M=-
*sees the word "linux" and runs away* |
+1 |
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| sezzy |
| omg u guys are in nerds!!!! ;) |
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| G`Dave |
| quote: | Originally posted by sezzy
omg u guys are in nerds!!!!;) |
:( |
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| Master_Yoda |
| quote: | Originally posted by -=M=-
*sees the word "linux" and runs away* |
Hahaha!!
You guys have no idea how stable Linux is.... if you can get it to do what u want that is. |
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| -=M=- |
| quote: | Originally posted by Master_Yoda
Hahaha!!
You guys have no idea how stable Linux is.... if you can get it to do what u want that is. |
oh im aware of how stable it is... i'm just afraid of it, is all :p |
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| tachyon |
just so we can conclude on what was going on behind the dreaded BSOD:
WinXP keep track of the primary (active) partition size (how big it was). whenever you make changes to your primary partition (marked a bad sector, defrag etc) using the disk management utilities that WinXP supplies, the system will update it, and tells you to restart, for instance.
in this case, partition magic did a merge of two partition and winXP system kernel doesn't know about this (since the merge/update was not performed by the system itself) so when the machine restarted and winXP looked at the partition size and found out that it has been changed, and doesn't have the same size as before, it balked out and send a BSOD your way.
bear in mind that this is not always the case because on some systems XP just ignored the fact that the partition has been changed and boots normally (this is the black magik behind WinXP i guess.)
the best way to restore a partition's content i think is to run a data recovery software such as R-Studio, VirtualLab Data Recovery or Active@ File Recovery
hope this helps.
:thepirate |
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