Rakuda

Alright, I'm pretty dissappointed with the "good" reputation PM8.0 had. I recieved it, and in an attempt to resize a partition on my primary hard drive, it was a success, except for one extremely major thing. The drive I had kept my 'My Documents' folder on, along with about 200GB of other information, including music, pictures, school work, etc. has been destroyed. The format is now "Type EE", which I've looked and looked online but it seems I'm the only one with this error. When I try doing anything to the drive I get an error 631. What really bugs me is that this drive wasn't even part of the freaking partition I was resizing, so why would it have been corrupt. I can't do any chkdsk or whatever because my computer doesn't recognize it, not even in Device Manager.

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6149/47268811.jpg

That's an image of the drive and it's properties. I'm totally lost and I need IMEDIATE help.

I've been copying and pasting the above on a few different support forums, but since this is a more technical one, is there a way I can check if the data is still on there? I can't use cmdpromt stuff because it's an unknown format, any ideas if I remove the hard drive and plug it back in, or maybe fix it with the windows disk? I'm runnign Windows XP Pro 64-bit.

raptor_pa

More information about the drive, is this a separate physical drive or another partition on the same drive, how about a screen cap of windows disk management so we can see the partition layout? Probably the best bet would be to try partition find and mount to try to find the old partition, mount it read only, and copy your data off to another disk so it is safe, then try test_disk as in this sticky to see if you can restore the partition table as in this sticky Have you "lost" a hard drive, partition or files in your computer?

Rakuda

Ok, first of all, thanks for the quick reply.

Now, I'm not quite sure what you're trying to get at with this, what exactly do you mean by all of this?

More info on the drive. It's a secondary drive. I have two hardrives, one of them being partitioned, the other isn't. The one that isn't is the unaccesible one.

And before I was referencing Device Manager, which now shows two SCSI drives, which these(There are 3 devices so I'm guessing whats being read as SCSI devices is the one working drive) are not, and one unknown device. When I try to get to Disk Management, it said "This service database is locked", and I can't get into it.

Another bit of random info, Partition Magic sees the drive, My Computer doesn't, and neither will the Device Manager(I guess)

Edit: Yes I am the administrator of the PC

raptor_pa

"partition find and mount" can be downloaded here... www.findandmount.com it will scan the drive for lost/corrupt partition tables and if it finds one, it will give you the option to mount it as a drive letter in Windows in read only mode. You can then copy the files out to another drive, and then safely either try test_disk to fix it, or just delete the partition and reformat in Windows. Third party software can present some issues when moving partition tables, if there is a bad sector it tries to use, that can be enough to hammer the p-table.

Rakuda

Alright... Well, just as a quick side note, I've been working with another person on a different forum and we got pretty far... http://community.norton.com/norton/b...hread.id=13846

I can now see the drive in Disk manager, and it's format is "RAW".... I'm running Partition Find and Mount now.... Is it possible my data can be retrieved?

Rakuda

Ok... I just used Test_Disk, and got all my stuff back, and the drive is working!!! Now that I know this, I realized that the Hard Disk that I had wanted to change the partition on didn't change... Could you recommend another sort of partition resizer that hopefully wont do this?