LOST PARTITIONS ON NT4.0 SERVER WITH SP6

[SKY8506]

Hello!,
I work on a NT server 4.0 (this is one of the BDC in my company) and last week when I was at Internet I had the clasic blue "crash" screen with memory dumping data. Then the machine restarted and I logged on as Administrator as usual. As I had plenty of work I didn't checked the machine. Hours later I updated my Mcafee Antivirus with Super Dat file 4110. As you may know by now, this file had some kind of bug that made a lot of people lost their main NTFS partition on NT. When I finished I had a message of a boot sector virus. Then I boot from my original Mcafee floppy disk to clean it. When I finished I decided to launch Lotus Notes (which I had installed on drive D) with no result. A faster look to My PC showed me the status: I had only one Drive C and my 2 partitions D and E where missing. I don't have the emergency disk for this BDC. My HDD is 15GB and I had 3 almost equal partitions. Disk Administrator shows only one 14,324MB. Properties on My PC shows : used space 1.45GB and free space 1.46GB. That makes a total of 2.92GB. And this is why I think it's possible to recover. What do you think? Do you know of any tool or method I can work with?

Best Regards

Carlos León
Electrolux del Peru S.A.

 

[DougP]

this may work but be very carefull.
Open "Disk Administrator" program in "Programs", "Administrative tools"
does it show those partitions in there?
Maybe they have slanted lines through them.

DO NOT format them or you will lose the data.
right click on a partition an see if you can "Assign a drive letter" to them.

DO NOT "mark them active" or when you re-boot it will mkae that your bootable partition and since no system files reside there it won't boot. you will get errors.

DougP, MCP
dposton@universal1.com

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