Hard drive crashed

[xboxhaxorz]

I was using partition magic to partition my hard drive. I used it from a bootable disk, when i loaded the program it asked me to correct 2 errors and said yes, in the partition magic it wasnt showing any partitions so i restarted and now it loads windows and then immediately restarts, i did however get a glimpse of it saying to do chkdsk /f. I tried that but it says the drive is locked. I put the drive in another machine and it doesnt show it as an active partition.

[JatinBeniwal]

Partition magic does not support large hard disks and may have problem with sata. Partition magic development stops after windows server 2003 release. Use acronis disk director or paragon partition magic to rescue.

[Ponch]

Hi, You need to provide far more info. You are "partitionning" a drive with PM, do you mean a (second) empty drive or "resizing the partitions" on your main drive ?

One drive ? two drives ? ATA - SATA ? What PM version ? How big is the drive ? How big the partitions ? What service Pack is your XP running (this is the XP forum, right?) What have you tried to do exactly with PM ? Has it done any work or has it just "corrected something" in a split second ?

You say Windows restarts but you were still able to do a checkdisk ... how ?

[xboxhaxorz]

i only got as far as loading PM which had me correct 2 errors. i did not do anything beyond that, no i cannot do chkdsk it says the drive is locked and when put in another pc it doesnt show up as a active partition.

[LeveL]

You might have to use a recovery program to "see" the data again.

I say GetDataBack.

Then you need a spare drive of equal or greater size to copy the data onto.

Edited January 6, 2009 by LeveL