deleted NTFS partition 1

[Troubled]

bad oops...<br>

While intalling NT on drive 0, I deleted drive 1's partition. <which NT setup showed as 0,0> Being my data store...this is not good. The drive was well defragged and most everything should be contiguous. Nothing has been written since. How shall I procede?<br>

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Thanks to anyone....

 

[Mikem22]

You will need to rebuild the partition table and (probably) the first boot sector of the hard disk - manually.. <br><br>If you need help with this, there are some details on the Microsoft website. Failing that there are some utilities that can do this for you.. If you look at <A HREF="

http://www.atl-datarecovery.com"

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http://www.atl-datarecovery.com</A>

(I am not affiliated with this company!) they have a product called BPR which rebuilds partition tables and boot sectors.<br><br>Mike<br>

 

[Guest_imported]

I desperatley need help to move files from a corrupt drive onto a clean partition on the same drive..it was loaded with windows 2000.

I can see my files and directories in system consul on the corrupt &quot;c&quot;partition and need to move them onto a clean and uncorrupted partition on the same drive..but I do not know how to copy directories under ntfs....

any help will be appreciated.

The drive reports &quot;The volume appears to have one or more unrecoverable problems&quot; when chkdsk is preformed

 

[Mikem22]

Try this ..

Download NTFSDOS and boot the system from a windows 98 boot disk. Run NTFSDOS from floppy. This will mount the partitions so they can be read under dos. Use xcopy <path>\*.* /s to copy the folders and files to a a separate partition.

If the corruption is too severe, this may not work and you will probably need an NTFS file recovery program such as; Ontrack Easy Recovery or Restorer 2000

Mike

MIke Montgomery
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[Mikem22]

Further to the above, I should have mentioned that you will probably lose you long file names as DOS only supports the DOS 8.3 format.

Mike

MIke Montgomery
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Professional data recovery from hard disks, floppy disks zip and jaz drives. Free diagnosis and on line quotation system.

 

[Guest_imported]

Restorer2000 is a powerful data recovery software that can undelete files deleted accidentally in NTFS partitions, and can even recover data from formatted or corrupted drives.

http://www.bitmart.net/undelete.htm

Restorer2000 can recover files with foreign-language filenames, long filenames, NTFS-compressed filenames, and alternative data streams such as Windows 2000 file information. SmartScan technology, combined with the flexibility of adjusting parameters, gives you control over quick data reconstruction. Drive Images are useful for such tasks as recovering drives with bad sectors. The program's powerful algorithms also let you find and restore deleted files in just a few seconds.

 

[kshugart]

Well troubled!
Ther is some good comments and advice on how to recover the lost NTFS partition. Some may even work.
Data Recovery software is good as long as you understand hard disks and the inards of the file systems. If not, you could conceivibly destroy that data just as easily.

Yes, you need to find and rebuild that partition table, this more than likely will have to be done below int13.

As far as unerase utitlities, you didn't delete them, so these programs will probably not work, your main concern is the partition information.

hope this helps


Klon Shugart
Data Recovery Technician

http://www.Adv-data.com