Lost a partition need help

[Yossarian451]

I was trying to use partition magic to merge two of my partitions to make life easier but now I am worse off. I set it up to merge the two last night and I woke up to it giving me an erro Something like 1132- Margin Header error. It rebooted and now my D: partiton is one, in partition magic C; is just normal but D: appears as unallocated space. I assume that all of the data is still there just not accessible. I depseratley need to get to this because I stupidly did not back up or create a rescue disk, and all of my finacial records are on this partition.

Any help on adding this back is really appreciated.

 

[Bozo]

Try this:

http://www.gold-software.com/ActivePartitionRecovery-file9062.html


Bozo

 

[Yossarian451]

Originally posted by: Bozo
Try this:

http://www.gold-software.com/ActivePartitionRecovery-file9062.html


Bozo

no luck, after 2 hours of it scanning the partition it let me try to add it then gave an error.

 

[xtknight]

Try this?

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=33&threadid=1790641&enterthread=y

 

[Yossarian451]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Try this?

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=33&threadid=1790641&enterthread=y

The space is currently unallocated. I really want to be sure it will work before I create it as a partition. And without it being a real partition it doesn't seem to work.

So I guess my question is: If I create this as a parition in partition magic, will it's formatting erase the data that is there?

 

[Yossarian451]

So I went ahead and created the partition to see if anything could be found on it with the recovery tool, and it was a bust so unless anyone can tell me anything I think I have lost everything.

 

[RVN]

Spinrite

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Yossarian451
So I went ahead and created the partition to see if anything could be found on it with the recovery tool, and it was a bust so unless anyone can tell me anything I think I have lost everything.

Call MS or Ontrack.

Partition havok strikes again!!

 

[Yossarian451]

Originally posted by: Smilin

Originally posted by: Yossarian451
So I went ahead and created the partition to see if anything could be found on it with the recovery tool, and it was a bust so unless anyone can tell me anything I think I have lost everything.

Call MS or Ontrack.

Partition havok strikes again!!

Looks like ontrack's program is gonna get my stuff back, though everything has lost its names, at least I have it back.