Recoving 60G HDD when switching from mobo IDE to PCI IDE controller

[skube]

Hi folks,

I recently installed a Maxtor (Promise OEM) ATA133 PCI Controller card that came in the 200G kit (recent CompUSA deal <: )

I left my C/D drive on my mobo's primary controller. Hooked up my E/F drives (a 60 gig and the new 200 gig) to the controller card's secondary channel.

WinXP claimed that the 60G drive (of which 50G was used) was now a dynamic partition, with 100% unallocated space. I converted to basic (ugh) being momentarily confused, thinking this was my 200G drive. Then I rebooted. Realizing the error of my ways (I didnt format or create partitions on my old 60G drive), I put the 60G drive back on my mobo's secondary IDE channel and disconnected the 200G drive temporarily. Still, WinXP thinks 100% of the space on the 60G drive is unallocated.

Is there any way to recover my data? I think Windows was confused by the switching of the 60G from the mobo's secondary IDE controller to the controller card.

Thoughts or suggestions greatly appreciated,

skube😕

 

[DaveR]

Not sure, but can't systemworks even recover from a partition change?

 

[skube]

DIY's IRecover Solved the Problem

Following up on my own message:

In the end, I used DIY's IRecover program.

http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/~tkuurstra/irecover.htm

Notes:

* Tried Partition Magic, but it could not grok that behind the "unallocated space" of my 60G drive there was 55G of "lost" data, when I switched my drive from the mobo controller to the ATA133 PCI Card.


* Note: If you use IRecover to fix a similar problem, I found that turning off LDM/dynamic disk support in the options before proceeding helped.. otherwise with my particular configuration, IRecover would hang.

Seems to have worked so far.

Restored most of the contents of my 60G drive to the new 200G drive.

Demo is limited to restoring the contents of one directory. Full version is $100 for NTFS/FAT32 restores.

-skube

p.s. Not familiar with options Norton Systemworks provides via Norton Utilities.. I was looking at Norton's website, but don't have Norton Systemworks so can't say whether or not it might have helped my situation.