Partition dissapeared

Posted: 01-18-2009, 11:27 PM

Richard Leblanc

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I formatted the C drive on number one hard drive. I stored my back up on a
physically seperate hard drive in rthe same PC. I was able to restore all my
files from the seperate hard drive, so it was ok at this point. I shut the
PC down over night. When I startet up this am, the desktop was blank. On
restart the desktop came back, but when I tried to get information from the
seperate hard drive, a message came up asking if I want to format it. All
indication are that it is a RAW file. All I can think of is that the
partiton got damaged. Is there some way I can recover or repair the
partition?

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Shenan Stanley

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Re: Partition dissapeared

Posted: 01-18-2009, 11:40 PM

Richard Leblanc wrote:

> I formatted the C drive on number one hard drive. I stored my back
> up on a physically seperate hard drive in rthe same PC. I was able
> to restore all my files from the seperate hard drive, so it was ok
> at this point. I shut the PC down over night. When I startet up
> this am, the desktop was blank. On restart the desktop came back,
> but when I tried to get information from the seperate hard drive, a
> message came up asking if I want to format it. All indication are
> that it is a RAW file. All I can think of is that the partiton got
> damaged. Is there some way I can recover or repair the partition?

Look into the utility TestDisk...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk

Might help - might not. You might be going to your last backups.

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