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I WANT MY DATA

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by mohamed_salah_el_din

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Once i turn on the drive i havn't paration appear but when i enter by "fdisk" i discover that my partations are the same but the PRI-DOS partation has system "unknown" (not FAT32 or other) i don't know why my FAT is changed. I try to delete the PRI-DOS partation and creat a new one but the same Problem appears. my data is in the Extanded partation and i can't try any thing else because my data is very important. Please help me to solve this problem or tell me how i can get my data from the extanded partation.

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by cactus pete

You could also make this a slave drive in another system, back up the data, then reinstall everything on the first disk in the orginal machine.

by donmars

Build W2K into a New Partition.

Get copy of Partition Magic and make Partition Magic boot disks, set of two. Data on a W2K NTFS partition can only be accessed by Windows 2000/XP (or NT4 with appropriate Service Packs). By resizing any existing hard disk partitions to create space for a FAT Primary partition, you can install a second copy of Windows 2000 and gain access to the data files on the old NTFS partition. If you do not have at least 850Mb free space available in which to create a new Primary partition for W2K, you will need to resize your existing partitions. Resize the current W2K NTFS partition to its minimum size.
Resize any FAT partitions to their minimum size (if possible, remove any data from these partitions first and then completely delete them). Move the partitions to create the required area of contiguous free disk space. Create a new FAT Primary partition of at least 850Mb. W2K cannot be installed into a partition smaller than this size. Set the Active Partition to your new Primary FAT partition. Apply the batch of PartitionMagic operations. Remove the floppy disk and restart the PC. This assumes some knowledge of Partition Magic which you will have from the manual, it is really easy to understand.

by rcom

What operating system are you using?
Either way since the second partition is where your data is at then just install windows on the first partition. Or follow some of the other advice.

by wlbowers

Install this drive as a slave in another computer. If you can see the data partition copy your data.

If not ask yourself how important is your data. The more you diddle with this drive the bigger the chance you have of total data loss.

Contact a data recovery company. (do a google search. There are lots of them. They are in the back of computer magazines also) Get a quote from several on recovery. Now decide if it is worth letting them do it or trying yourself.

Good Luck Lee

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