Originally posted by: kd7fhd
I didn't bother reading all of the replies so this may be repeating someone else.
I have used Ghost in the past to make backups of my hard drives. Recently I tried the demo version of Acronis's TrueImage. I like it much better than ghost... it's worth the $40 they want for it.
So what the heck has this got to do with your lost partition?  Well, I noticed that they had a program to restore partitions on their web site also. If it works anywhere close to as good as TrueImage, it should fix your problem. And the price is $30!
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