Lost partition

[Guest greymat@my-deja.com]

When I went to bed last night, my disc looked like this:

 

 

EISA 7.8GB rescue - C: 20.31GB NTFS - D: 20GB FAT32 - [x F:10GB -

freespace 20.3GB - s:70GB]

 

(primary partitions except [x.] extended partition). When I booted up

this morning, it looked like this:

 

EISA 7.8GB rescue - C: 20.31GB NTFS - D: 20GB NTFS - [x F:10GB -

freespace 90.89GB]

 

The lost partition contains all my data, and was an NTFS volume. The

only thing that happened in between was installing WinXP on D: and

using EasyBCD to try and add an entry to the vista bcd, but I didn't

think that should mess with the MFT.

 

Is my partition retrievable? My data is not so valuable that I would

stretch to professional recovery fees, but it's more than just a bit

annoying.

 

Could this be OS related, particularly in that there was unallocated

space in an extended partition before the volume in question, or does

it mean that my (new) hard drive is dodgy?

 

Thanks

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Lost partition

 

 

<greymat@my-deja.com> wrote in message

news:1190689732.897549.269860@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

> When I went to bed last night, my disc looked like this:

>

>

> EISA 7.8GB rescue - C: 20.31GB NTFS - D: 20GB FAT32 - [x F:10GB -

> freespace 20.3GB - s:70GB]

>

> (primary partitions except [x.] extended partition). When I booted up

> this morning, it looked like this:

>

> EISA 7.8GB rescue - C: 20.31GB NTFS - D: 20GB NTFS - [x F:10GB -

> freespace 90.89GB]

>

> The lost partition contains all my data, and was an NTFS volume. The

> only thing that happened in between was installing WinXP on D: and

> using EasyBCD to try and add an entry to the vista bcd, but I didn't

> think that should mess with the MFT.

>

> Is my partition retrievable? My data is not so valuable that I would

> stretch to professional recovery fees, but it's more than just a bit

> annoying.

>

> Could this be OS related, particularly in that there was unallocated

> space in an extended partition before the volume in question, or does

> it mean that my (new) hard drive is dodgy?

>

> Thanks

>

 

Have a look at the thread with the Subject line "installed 2nd

HD ==> partitions gone", posted here four days ago.

[Guest Andy]

Re: Lost partition

 

The disk seems to be 160GB in size. Most likely your XP installation

was not capable of accessing large (> 137GB) disk drives, and

"removed" the last logical volume.

 

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:08:52 -0700, greymat@my-deja.com wrote:

>When I went to bed last night, my disc looked like this:

>

>

>EISA 7.8GB rescue - C: 20.31GB NTFS - D: 20GB FAT32 - [x F:10GB -

>freespace 20.3GB - s:70GB]

>

>(primary partitions except [x.] extended partition). When I booted up

>this morning, it looked like this:

>

>EISA 7.8GB rescue - C: 20.31GB NTFS - D: 20GB NTFS - [x F:10GB -

>freespace 90.89GB]

>

>The lost partition contains all my data, and was an NTFS volume. The

>only thing that happened in between was installing WinXP on D: and

>using EasyBCD to try and add an entry to the vista bcd, but I didn't

>think that should mess with the MFT.

>

>Is my partition retrievable? My data is not so valuable that I would

>stretch to professional recovery fees, but it's more than just a bit

>annoying.

>

>Could this be OS related, particularly in that there was unallocated

>space in an extended partition before the volume in question, or does

>it mean that my (new) hard drive is dodgy?

>

>Thanks

[Guest greymat@my-deja.com]

Re: Lost partition

 

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

The pics are from the disk management snap in, and mountvol.exe shows

the same volumes.

 

The disc shows up as 149.05GB in both WinXP and Vista, and I've

previously installed XP on a 160GB drive from this installation cd, so

I don't think that's the problem.

 

The data must still be there, which is very frustrating. There must

be a way to get it back.

 

Thanks