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My son was creating a partition using PM 8 and the system crashed.
Now most of the drive is listed as "unallocated". What might be
recommended for trying to see any files?

Colin

 

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I would say that you have probably lost whatever was on the partition. The
data could be recovered but, quite frankly, you would require a specialist
to do the job and they don't come cheap (i'm not talking £100's of pound
here i'm talking lots lots more.)
However, what you might try is openning Partition magic 8 and right clicking
on the 'unallocated' space. A drop doen menu will appear and there should be
an option marked 'undelete'. Theoretically this is supposed to undelete the
partition. Whether it will return your partition back to how it was i
haven't a clue, but it might be worth a try. You may at least get something
back.

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"Colin Bearfield" <c.bearfield@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> My son was creating a partition using PM 8 and the system crashed.
> Now most of the drive is listed as "unallocated". What might be
> recommended for trying to see any files?
>
> Colin

 

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Colin Bearfield wrote:
> My son was creating a partition using PM 8 and the system crashed.
> Now most of the drive is listed as "unallocated". What might be
> recommended for trying to see any files?

Try and use a disk imaging utility (like Ghost or TrueImage) to make a full
image of the drive as it is and see if their built in utility for reading
into these images gives you access to your files.

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Colin Bearfield wrote:
> My son was creating a partition using PM 8 and the system crashed.
> Now most of the drive is listed as "unallocated". What might be
> recommended for trying to see any files?
>
> Colin
If you made the PM boot disks before hand, try them, but I doubt they
will work.
Remove the drive, configure the tabs on it as a slave drive and place
the drive in another system as its second drive. Boot into the second
system and use windows explorer to see if the drive is visible. You
might be able to get access to your data and back it up in this manor.
good luck,
Walt

 

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Stating the obvious here: Restore from the backup that he made in step 1,
before he started resizing the partition. He did follow the instructions,
correct?

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"Colin Bearfield" <c.bearfield@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:0c2l6117u3qu52cfiaamnur7u2impiodql@4ax.com...
> My son was creating a partition using PM 8 and the system crashed.
> Now most of the drive is listed as "unallocated". What might be
> recommended for trying to see any files?
>
> Colin