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Help! My partition just crashed!

there are several things you can do. try not to write onto the disk where the partition is, and try getting some recovery utilities. at the extremes you can dish out some $$ to get it professionally done.
 
OK, it looks like it's time for someone to actually help you.

First of all, partitions don't "crash". Did you delete some data on it? Did you delete (fdisk, etc) the partition? Did you format it?..

Download Symantec Utilities from www.Symantec.com - it comes with Norton Disk Doctor which is one of the best personal and semi-commercial data recovery tools on the market. It is much faster and better than Windows' Scandisk.

Make sure you do not install it to that "crashed" partition.

If you formatted it, there is a way to unformat it. And if you deleted some data, you can use the Norton Unerase program (comes with the utilities mentioned above).

Good luck.

** Edit: You can try Ontrack data recovery utilities (probably downloadable as shareware), but I highly doubt that they are any better than Symantec's.
 
I think he means a HDD crashed that was serving as a second partition... but maybe I'm reading more into it then is there.
 
I was moving data from one partition to another, plus I was doing various other tasks such as burning CD, so it froze, and when I boot back to Windows, it said that my partition is not formatted.
 
Norton website doesn't me to download a demo. Besides, demo's won't help me, cuz they won't fix the problem until I register. I tried it with Ontrack EasyRecovery. The shareview lets me view my data, but would NOT recover it until I register/buy the software. I decided to lose the data, I hope I didn't lose anything important in that loaded 20GB partition.
 
Powerquest is offering a free download of their Lost and Found software. You may still be able to read the disk (from DOS) using this utility, it can even access disks no longer recognized by the BIOS. Here is some FAQ about what it does. The download page asks for a APC product SKU#, but any old number will work. Don't forget to write down the serial# needed to make the three startup floppies.
 
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