Lost partitions on SATA HDDs

mikejac · 08-06-2005, 08:26 AM

I have been running my pc with 2 160GB SATA HDDs, each containing 2 partitions. These are not set up as RAID disks. I also have a 160GB IDE HDD with Win XP OS.

My wife (bless her) has inadvertently gone into the RAID facility and now I cannot see the partitions on my SATA drives. I can recover the data using appropriate software, but as there is a lot (photos etc) I would prefer if possible to recover the partitions.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can go about this?

**linderman** · 08-07-2005, 05:22 AM

Welcome to the forum:

Here are three programs ranking from the easiest to use to the more indepth

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...rtition+doctor
this one is the gold standard / easy to use very high perfromance rating / but not free

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

this is good but ~~~ deeper water & free

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

another real useful utility / deep water for intermediate computer users / its free to try

given that your in a situtation of data recovery / i would strongly advise the use of the first link / the others are great but chances for data loss are also very elevated

regards

joe

08-06-2005, 08:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
mikejac Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1 OS: Win XP	Lost partitions on SATA HDDs I have been running my pc with 2 160GB SATA HDDs, each containing 2 partitions. These are not set up as RAID disks. I also have a 160GB IDE HDD with Win XP OS. My wife (bless her) has inadvertently gone into the RAID facility and now I cannot see the partitions on my SATA drives. I can recover the data using appropriate software, but as there is a lot (photos etc) I would prefer if possible to recover the partitions. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can go about this?

08-07-2005, 05:22 AM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,442 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Welcome to the forum: Here are three programs ranking from the easiest to use to the more indepth http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...rtition+doctor this one is the gold standard / easy to use very high perfromance rating / but not free http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm this is good but ~~~ deeper water & free http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html another real useful utility / deep water for intermediate computer users / its free to try given that your in a situtation of data recovery / i would strongly advise the use of the first link / the others are great but chances for data loss are also very elevated regards joe __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial