finding existing partitions in xp

[jpcheat]

I have 2 drives 30 gig and 80gig. Ive just resinstalled windows on the 30 gig.

when I connected my 80gig (which has 3 partitions) only the final partition was recognised by windows. (or partition magic).

is there anyway to make windows recognise the earlier partitions or am I going to have to lose all the data and format?

please help.

jp

 

[smah]

If PM doesn't see the partitions, something's fishy.

What do you see in the bottom graphic in xp's disk management? --> Start, Run, diskmgmt.msc

 

[jpcheat]

disc 0 (c 27gb ntfs healthy (system)

cd rom (d healthy

disc 1 (e) 73gb ntfs healthy (Active)

its still regestering as being 70gb full and 4 gb free. but only the 3rd partition shows up in explorer and in disk manegement. which is about 50 gig.

got me stumped really

I tried using testdisk and it could only find the one partition.

things look grim

JP

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=153973

http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/25375/25375.html

 

[Freestone]

I've no experience with the following software, but the demo version may at least tell you something about your lost partitions:

http://www.partition-recovery.com

 

[jpcheat]

thanks for your help I managed to recover the important data with lost and found.

cheers

JP