Recover hard drive data/partition problem

icedcoffee · 05-05-2006, 08:30 AM

I reformatted my primary hard drive, then connected my secondary 'storage' drive but it said "this drive is not formatted, would you like to format it now" when I selected i in 'my computer', i do not want to format it cos i really need the stuff on it. I have tried so much, but I cant seem to access the partition at all.

Here is a screenshot of the computer management window. Its the second disk that is (Disk1) where the problem lies.

I really need ot recover the data on the drive. I dont see why it should be gone. If anyone has any suggestions i would be so grateful.

Thank you
Phil

immortali · 05-05-2006, 09:30 AM

did u try using getdataback? On your diskmanagement the disk seems goodly partitioned yet doesn't have a file system. Was your secondary hard-disk FAT32 perhaps?

**linderman** · 05-05-2006, 10:41 AM

The problem you have encountered is due to the use of disk management to set up your partitions and formatt the salve drive. When you partition and format a drive from within windows disk management >> it writes your partition info to the boot drive instead of the slave drive. so when the boot drive dies or get removed the slave drive can not be run by another OS installation because it can not find the partition set-up info which tells the OS how to and where to read and write from.

you will need to use a program like www.p-t-d-d.com (manually enter the web address without the hypens) that will restore your partiion paramamters !!

next time USE the hard drive makers set=up utility (free at each hard drive manufacturers website) to partition and format your drives ... those are easy to use and run in DOS; so therefore they write the drive paramters to the drive that needs them !!

~~kathe~~ · 05-21-2006, 09:06 PM

Partiton recovery tool — Partition Table Doctor 3.0.
Data recovery tool -Data Recovery Wizard.
You can search them on Google.

05-22-2006, 09:56 AM

i would try booting from a bootable cd, and check what you can recover from the disk(s).
Try knoppix : www.knoppix.org

then pick a recovery software from here : http://www.techsupportforum.com/hard...softwares.html

05-05-2006, 08:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
icedcoffee Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1 OS: XP	Recover hard drive data/partition problem I reformatted my primary hard drive, then connected my secondary 'storage' drive but it said "this drive is not formatted, would you like to format it now" when I selected i in 'my computer', i do not want to format it cos i really need the stuff on it. I have tried so much, but I cant seem to access the partition at all. Here is a screenshot of the computer management window. Its the second disk that is (Disk1) where the problem lies. I really need ot recover the data on the drive. I dont see why it should be gone. If anyone has any suggestions i would be so grateful. Thank you Phil

05-05-2006, 10:41 AM	#3 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,440 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	The problem you have encountered is due to the use of disk management to set up your partitions and formatt the salve drive. When you partition and format a drive from within windows disk management >> it writes your partition info to the boot drive instead of the slave drive. so when the boot drive dies or get removed the slave drive can not be run by another OS installation because it can not find the partition set-up info which tells the OS how to and where to read and write from. you will need to use a program like www.p-t-d-d.com (manually enter the web address without the hypens) that will restore your partiion paramamters !! next time USE the hard drive makers set=up utility (free at each hard drive manufacturers website) to partition and format your drives ... those are easy to use and run in DOS; so therefore they write the drive paramters to the drive that needs them !! __________________ 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

05-05-2006, 09:30 AM	#2 (permalink)
immortali Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Malta Posts: 30 OS: Windows Vista X86 Ultimate	did u try using getdataback? On your diskmanagement the disk seems goodly partitioned yet doesn't have a file system. Was your secondary hard-disk FAT32 perhaps?

05-21-2006, 09:06 PM	#4 (permalink)
~~kathe~~ Register user Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5 OS: win2000	Partiton recovery tool — Partition Table Doctor 3.0. Data recovery tool -Data Recovery Wizard. You can search them on Google.

05-22-2006, 09:56 AM	#5 (permalink)
PurpleSky Guest Posts: n/a OS:	i would try booting from a bootable cd, and check what you can recover from the disk(s). Try knoppix : www.knoppix.org then pick a recovery software from here : http://www.techsupportforum.com/hard...softwares.html