Partition Magic Ate my Partitions!!!

[Invincible]

I'm not to impressed.
last night I set it up to merge my last two partitions, which it seemed to be doing. I went off to bed thinking it could handle the task on it's own, but when I woke up this morining, it was still at 20%!!! The comptuer had froze, so I had to reboot. When I did, then restarted partition magic, it told me that it had made markers and would try to recover the partitions. I let it sit there for 45 minutes "searching for partition markers" or something to that effect, so I assumed it was not responding... I was right. (the hdd light was on the whole time too)
Now I'm not quite sure what I should do. The two partitions that are 'lost' were my D and E which. Between the two, there was about 25GB of data lost. Even if I were to use, say, easy recovery pro, I only have a 40Gb drive.. where am I going to find room to recover it?

Here are my system specs:
T-Bird 1.33
Abit KT7A-R
IBM 60GXP 40GB
This happened under Win98SE, though I dual boot.

 

[bozo1]

Just format and restore from your backup. Partition Magic has been known to do this.

 

[Shack70]

did you check for errors before you ran partition magic? I know they recommend it....

 

[deadlock]

I had to laugh out loud when I saw the topic. Sounds so typical of this bloody IBM/PC platform. hahahaha

Anyway, since you're running Win98 it looks like you have to fire up FDISK and delete all the partitions and start from scratch. But make sure you run down the checklist before you do this though (i.e. backup data, make sure you have a boot disk and DOS CD-ROM driver if drive is not BIOS bootable blah blah).

It's ok mate, happens to the best of us.

 

[lain]

Oh dear...

When it comes to computers, no one is invincible (pun intended)

you've gotten yourself in quite a bit of mess. However, all is not lost AS LONG AS YOU REMEMBER YOUR LESSONS>

1 - Never, I say again, NEVER do anything drastic to your HD unless you've a good backup or don't care to lose the data in it.
Repeat after me, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER - you shoud've also been warned by partition maginc prior to task.

Alas, Inv, if you absolutely have no way to RECOVE them, you'll have to SET YOUR CURRENT DRIVE TO SLAVE, FIND/BUY ANOTHER HD, AND SET TO MASTER. So now you can go back and see your old HD to recover stuffs that you need - this is only a theroy. It doesn't hurt to try.