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by hartwith

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On the pc in question I had to change the hard drive which had developed a fault. The system originally was dual boot (Win2K & 98). It had an additional partition(H)which was used for data backups etc. Win2k was formatted NTFS and 98 as FAT32. Having replaced the drive with just single boot Win2k(NTFS) I attempted to recover the lost data by slaving the old drive. No problems seeing the old Win2k & 98 partitions and data was recovered ok from these areas but the old "H" partition has vanished! Much gloom because the backups are now unavailable from that partition.
Any ideas on how to recover this area?

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by erikdr

Did you try Powerquest PartitionMagic? Often it is capable of spotting strange partitions and making the best out of it...

Have fun,

- The Netherlands

by timwalsh

You might also try fdisk to see how the partition is listed or if it is listed. It could be that the fault that you had with the drive corrupted the partition table.

Also go into the Disk Management tool to see if the partition shows up. Go to the Action menu and click Rescan disk to see if this will cause the partition to reappear.

by b_pope

Since it appears you like to use multiple partitions & OSs, get yourself a copy of System Commander7 from V-com http://www.v-com.com/

It will not only fix your problem of retrieving data, but does all the partitioning & is one of the best, if not "the best boot managers" available.

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