Hi, before we start here's a layout of how my hdd was:
[58 fat32][1400 ntfs][2000 fat32][4000 2 linux partition]
um, so ya, I was using partiton magic 7 to move more space from my 14 gig xp partition to my 2 gig 98 partition. The thing reboots, starts working, resizes (I think) then crashes. I restart xp and 98 are hosed. Um, I think that it resized the partitons but then didn't rewrite the partition table, or something, but anyway, stupidly I tried to reinstall 98. that didn't work. Um, and it's a hp laptop without a floppy so I was using the windows cd to boot into dos. Um, and then the pos decided to start formatting my WHOLE HDD. So it started and I saw it and turned my comp off. So right now I'm pretty sure I lost the 2 gigs on my 98 partiton, but that's ok. I just need to know if I can get my ntfs partiton back. I've used 2 different programs with limited success. One is "active partition recovery" It sees the 58 meg fat32 partition @ the begining of my drive, and the ntfs and the extended part for the linux partitions, but when I tell it to write and then set the ntfs as active, it doesn't come up. Um, I also have MBRwork, which I ran, um first I cleared the partition table, then did a "detect ms format partitions" or something, and initially I had it look for 4 partitions, b/c I was unsure what it would find. I let that run all night and it was still running in the morning. I rebooted, changed it to looking for three, and let that run while I was at school, came home, it was still working. So I rebooted and changed it to look for 2 partitions (I think that's all that's left) um, ya, it's still running... So my questions are:
1) If you've used MBRwork before, how LONG does it take to run? more than 6 hours?
2) If I write my partition table with active partition recovery (which comes up with the correct values) is it possible to access my ntfs stuff off of there (it doesn't boot)
3) What else can I do?
thanks in advance. (now that only like 1 person has read this far) ^_^
-ben
[58 fat32][1400 ntfs][2000 fat32][4000 2 linux partition]
um, so ya, I was using partiton magic 7 to move more space from my 14 gig xp partition to my 2 gig 98 partition. The thing reboots, starts working, resizes (I think) then crashes. I restart xp and 98 are hosed. Um, I think that it resized the partitons but then didn't rewrite the partition table, or something, but anyway, stupidly I tried to reinstall 98. that didn't work. Um, and it's a hp laptop without a floppy so I was using the windows cd to boot into dos. Um, and then the pos decided to start formatting my WHOLE HDD. So it started and I saw it and turned my comp off. So right now I'm pretty sure I lost the 2 gigs on my 98 partiton, but that's ok. I just need to know if I can get my ntfs partiton back. I've used 2 different programs with limited success. One is "active partition recovery" It sees the 58 meg fat32 partition @ the begining of my drive, and the ntfs and the extended part for the linux partitions, but when I tell it to write and then set the ntfs as active, it doesn't come up. Um, I also have MBRwork, which I ran, um first I cleared the partition table, then did a "detect ms format partitions" or something, and initially I had it look for 4 partitions, b/c I was unsure what it would find. I let that run all night and it was still running in the morning. I rebooted, changed it to looking for three, and let that run while I was at school, came home, it was still working. So I rebooted and changed it to look for 2 partitions (I think that's all that's left) um, ya, it's still running... So my questions are:
1) If you've used MBRwork before, how LONG does it take to run? more than 6 hours?
2) If I write my partition table with active partition recovery (which comes up with the correct values) is it possible to access my ntfs stuff off of there (it doesn't boot)
3) What else can I do?
thanks in advance. (now that only like 1 person has read this far) ^_^
-ben