HELP!!...can't read a partition..

moosebanna

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OK heres the problem. I have 2 hard drives. The first is my Maxtor 15 gig which I had partitioned into two a c: and e: Win2k was on c: and e: had all important files which I at the moment cannot see. The other drive d: is my old Fujitsu. I tried installing Mandrake Linux on the d: and it didn't work...some boot up error "stage1". So now I couldn't boot into anything anymore. After trying hard to re-install win2k it would not work. I noticed when booting into DOS that my e: was not being recognized anymore. After fdisk /mbr....I was able to boot into win2k. I can see my d: (fujitsu) and only my c: my first partition. When looking under disk manager my Maxtor c: is shown and the exact size of my e:... which isn't listed as e: ... reads as a green bar "free space". Is there ANYYYY way to get the information back from that partition?? I have important files on the drive. Help my please....
 

DataFly

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When I was messing around with Linux a few years ago (not going to again for a while...:eek:), I found that formatting my C:\ or linux partitions screwed up the data in the other partitions. I never could get it back...:(


Anyway...
What happens when you boot with only the Maxtor drive in? If you can, try the Maxtor in another computer and boot off of it with no other drives attached.



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moosebanna

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I have no idea.....but I can tell you know that the drive is even worse off. After trying to make a logical drive of the free space on my maxtor....the computer on reboot was hosed saying..cannot find logical drive on HDD...please insert system disk. I took it out and tried it on another computer...and the drive was not readable under windows 98. It only sees a c: (no e:) and it cannot access the drive. I think its so gone...somebody has told me there is a software called Tiramisu that can restore any data on a drive before format....heard of it at all? Thanks for the help....


~Moose