ProphetZarquon
Technical User
Is it possible to recover a lost partition (appears as unformatted space) within the same space it occupied?
I am running WinXP Pro on my C: drive (12 gigs), with D: E: and F: set up from a 200gig secondary drive.
WinXP Pro is running fine.
When my F: drive ran out of space, I opted to use the free space on D: and E: to enlarge the F: partition.
Well PQ Partition Magic 8 was not installed on that machine, so like a fool, I launched it from a drive on the network.
Everything seemed to be working fine, until the machine froze. Now I have seen PM take a LOOOONG time to complete it's work, so I left for an hour or so. When I returned, the PC had restarted and PM8 had NOT completed it's work.
The F: drive now appears only as Unformatted space! WinXP Pro can see the drive, but cannot access it unless I choose to format. NO! Partition Magic does not offer any recovery options for unformatted space.
I do not have 50gigs free anywhere else to clone this partition to, and I don't have $400 for Active@ File Recovery. If I did, I would take this to a professional recovery service.
Is there any way I can recover the de-formatted partition to it's original location?
I am running WinXP Pro on my C: drive (12 gigs), with D: E: and F: set up from a 200gig secondary drive.
WinXP Pro is running fine.
When my F: drive ran out of space, I opted to use the free space on D: and E: to enlarge the F: partition.
Well PQ Partition Magic 8 was not installed on that machine, so like a fool, I launched it from a drive on the network.
Everything seemed to be working fine, until the machine froze. Now I have seen PM take a LOOOONG time to complete it's work, so I left for an hour or so. When I returned, the PC had restarted and PM8 had NOT completed it's work.
The F: drive now appears only as Unformatted space! WinXP Pro can see the drive, but cannot access it unless I choose to format. NO! Partition Magic does not offer any recovery options for unformatted space.
I do not have 50gigs free anywhere else to clone this partition to, and I don't have $400 for Active@ File Recovery. If I did, I would take this to a professional recovery service.
Is there any way I can recover the de-formatted partition to it's original location?