Lost my Partitions

[Lmronby]

I have a 45Gb IBM drive. It was partitioned to dual boot with win98 (6Gb) and win2k (4Gb). The rest of the drive had files/mp3s/photos. I thought I was pretty safe like this but I had to reinstall win98 and somehow I lost all of my partitions after some strange blue screen came up. After that I couldn't boot. The BIOS sees the drive and FDISK shows 1 45Gb partition, "no partitions set active".

I tried FDISK /mbr but that didn't help. What can I do? Should I set the partition active? Are there some partition recovery tools? Most of my data is backed up, but the last couple of months of digital pics are still on there.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[LongCoolMother]

so why cant you load up windows 2k and checK? or is that what you were doing? i understand you reformatted your win98 partition. if you formatted the win2k partitions into NTFS, then you will not be able to view it through MSDOS or windows 98.

 

[Lmronby]

When I tried to reinstall 98 I lost all my pertitions, even the 2k partition. I can't see anything on that drive. I am using an old HD now to get up and running. It shows the drive in Explorer as "local disk" but asks if I want to format.

 

[Lmronby]

All the partitions were FAT32

 

[Lmronby]

ttt

 

[Miramonti]

Ontrack Easyrecovery

And for future protection, backup the mbr. (this tool takes 1/2 hr to learn, but awesome tool)

Mbrtool

 

[Sundog]

Good advice....ontrack will work for most applications.

 

[Lmronby]

Tks for the inputs,, I'm think I'm gonna try the easy recovery.