Partition Magic Fuked my HDD!

[AssyrianKing]

I Resized my partition using partition magic 8, it then said to save changed needs to restart ur comp, so i let it restart then when it came to windows came up and started doing the resize and check n all dat.....once it got to 99% said something bout wrong attributes, press any key to reboot. so i rebooted now everytime my windows laod bar tries to load xp it blue screens r restarts.....basically....FU**

is there a way to undo what partition magic tried to do?? or fix my drive? and anyone know the cause for this? coz windows really pisses me off!

 

[spherrod]

did you create the Partition Magic restore diskettes when you installed it?

 

[AssyrianKing]

nup....can i get new ones? and what do i do with them?

 

[spherrod]

If you had them you could boot into a dos version of Partition Magic - the only way you can get new ones is to create them from a working Partition Magic installation. If you have another machine you could try creating them there?

 

[AssyrianKing]

yeh im on another machine now, but i also have a copy of a boot cd with tools on it including the dos version prgroam of partition magic 7....what can i do next?

 

[spherrod]

run Partition Magic and see what's happening with the hard drive - have any of the changes been applied? Might want to run a check on it as well

 

[AssyrianKing]

ok i loaded up pm7 from bootup and first time it got in it errored out of the program with a dos screen displaying a whole lot of writing but was very fast all i saw fast cause way errror at the end of it all....

i tried again and it got in, it shows my hdd to still be 1 partition called "=?c?c" ......looks stuffed. also the size is 194,466.5mb which is what a 200gb hdd is but also my used mb is the same....and unused mb is 0.0

have i lost all my data from this drive? im going to hookup it up as slave into my other comp and see if i can see anything.

what do i do now?

 

[AssyrianKing]

I put the hdd in this comp as slave but when i try to acces the drive it says "E:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."

 

[spherrod]

It looks like you have lost the data - you might need to try some data recovery software

 

[Smilin]

If you can get the drive mounted in a 2nd computer then you could probably fix this. You'll need someone good with diskprobe. The Microsoft enterprise platform support setup team would definately do the trick but they cost $245.

Since Windows starts to load, your MFT is mostly intact. It sounds like your partition table is absolutely shot. You can wipe and rebuild it from scratch by locating your boot sectors or backup boot sectors. I don't think you have data loss yet, but you're going to need someone who knows what they are doing to save you. Diskprobe and the tasks that need done are a bit to complicated to walk you through in a thread or email. You'll need someone on the phone to help you out.

Edit: if you can get that drive in a 2nd computer, run this utility and send me the resulting .CAB file. PM me when you get it ready and I'll send you the email of where I'm at at the time (home or work).

 

[spherrod]

what Smilin said

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Partition Magic explicitly warns you to backup your data before performing any procedure. There's always risk, albeit a fairly low one.

Sorry.

 

[stockjock]

Did you try and call PM's tech support. I had a problem once with a partition that I tried to resize and was gettting errors similar to yours...they were very helpful and got me out of trouble and all was well.

 

[montag451]

I would try spinrite6 before you fork out that amount of money for MS if what Stockjock says doesn't work.

 

[Smilin]

If you fool with anything at this point, don't bother calling MS. You're at the edge of the cliff as it is. It's going to be hard enough to cleanup without more changes being made.