LonTong Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 I don't know if this topic is relevant here but I desperately need help.Hopefully you guys can help me out...........My computer setup:Pentium II 350 Mhz with 32 + 64 MB memoryHD 1: Maxtor 40 Gbpartition 1: primary NTFS Windows 2000 (my system) = 6Gbpartition 2: primary Fat32 Windows 98 SE (my wife)= 4Gbpartition 3: primary Fat 32 Windows 98SE (my Son)= 4Gbpartition 4: logical, containing: 500mb fat32:swap file 100mb XOSL 1Gb fat32:photo files 1Gb fat32:data files 8 Gb fat32:downloaded stuff rest emptyHD 2: Quantum 3.2 Gbempty spacelogical partitionFirst problem: While booting to "my wife", system hang (& I heard loud strange Movement of HD) & upon restart HD 2 is gone - also from "my system" & "myson" (even bios only saw one hd). I first thought the aging HD 2 broke ...(but I later on found out that HD 2 is still working perfectly. I disconnected HD 1 & made HD 2 as primary, BIOS immediatelly recognized on boot & I can also install win 2k on empty space. But also this system could not recoqnize my logical partition on HD 1 - that I put as slave now)Second problem:Several days later all 3 systems crashed (completely failed to boot). I can only get to "my son" in dos. What is worst, suddenly logical partition got converted to unknown partition (partition magic reported as one EB type partition) My big concern: HOw to get all my data (photo, data files, & downloaded stuff back)?Please help anyone !! Another question if I delete that EB partition using partition magic floppy, will it destroy all data on it or it just delete the partition so that I can make the logical partition & try to recreate those partitions? Prior to this problem I had different setup with Similar problem:HD1:primary 1 : Win 98 my systemprimary 2: Win 98 my wifeprimary 3: emptyLogical:1: XOSL2: Linux swap3: Linux4: Photo file5: Data file6: downloaded stuffHD 2:at first : empty space + one logicalthen it became:1: primary Win 98 game (my son)2: logical old stuffUsing XOSL I hide both partition of HD 2 from "my system" and "my wife"I also hide all partitions of HD 1 when on "my son"No problem with this setup.Probably due to virus infection, "my son" crashed. I deleted it s0 HD 2 is back to original setup, i.e.:1: empty2: logical = old stuffHere comes odd problem:If I unhide logical old stuff both "my system" & "my wife" did not boot (just hang). However Linux has no problem whatsoever reading old stuff.I then ghosted "my system" to empty primary 3 for my son. Strange enough, the new my son had no problem with logical old stuff but instead It cannot read any partition on HD 1 logical partition (Photo, data, & downloaded stuff).I had partition magic installed on "my system" & it read all partitions with no problem but the same partition magic ghosted to "my son" read logical partition on HD 1 as EB partition.2 months ago I decided to reformat & created the above system & had no problem untill couple of days ago.............Please anyone help me rescuing those valuable data back.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian873 Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 you need this utilty.....it works great, and has helped me a few times.http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.htmlhail hail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonTong Posted February 8, 2005 Author Share Posted February 8, 2005 Thank you.Will definitely give it a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian873 Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Meant to say use TESTDISK from that site....hail hail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonTong Posted February 13, 2005 Author Share Posted February 13, 2005 Thanks Brian 873 TESTDISK saved my life It restored my partitions along with all my data B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian873 Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Good to hear it......hail hail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tubui Posted April 3, 2005 Share Posted April 3, 2005 brian873 can you please help me too? I have Windows XP. Can you show me how to work this program and does it have an XP version.Please read my thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRGCAV Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Go to Download.com.Find Getdataback. their is a Fat and a NTFS version.If you have not overwritten your data it will recover it.Contact for more info and a license.MRGCAV@hotmail.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gheron Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Test Disk Usage Tubui, go to this website and on around page 8 it gives you a walkthrough on using testdisk.It is a great utility! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Come on guys, original poster had his problem solved, and tubui's post was from APRILI guess he solved his problem by now....jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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