Power outage while using Partition Magic 8.0 has left disc marked 'BAD'
 

While I was extending a partition on my second hard drive there was a power
outage. Now the drive no longer shows in Explorer and Disc Management shows
the drive as Online but will not allow me to allocate a driver letter.
Partition Magic shows the drive as bad and only offers the option to format
it.

The Partition Info Tool gives the report below. I will be really glad of
some help on how to put his right and yes I know the data should have been
backed up!

Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
ucEndCylinder (48641) must be less than 48641.


Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 0 80 0 0 3 3C 48641 80 53 2 781422756
Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 3.
Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
ucEndCylinder (48641) must be less than 48641.
Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
ucEndHead expected to be 254, not 80.
Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
ucEndSector expected to be 63, not 53.

Re: Power outage while using Partition Magic 8.0 has left disc marked 'BAD'
 

"M" <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote:

>While I was extending a partition on my second hard drive there was a power
>outage. Now the drive no longer shows in Explorer and Disc Management shows
>the drive as Online but will not allow me to allocate a driver letter.
>Partition Magic shows the drive as bad and only offers the option to format
>it.
>
>The Partition Info Tool gives the report below. I will be really glad of
>some help on how to put his right and yes I know the data should have been
>backed up!
>
>Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
> ucEndCylinder (48641) must be less than 48641.
>

You have an option to create a boot disk with PM, at least the PM I've
used.

If you created that bootdisk, boot with that; it should provide a fix
for the problem.
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Re: Power outage while using Partition Magic 8.0 has left disc marked 'BAD'
 

"M" <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote in
news:5ipm3bF3o2gn7U1@mid.individual.net:

> While I was extending a partition on my second hard drive
> there was a power outage. Now the drive no longer shows in
> Explorer and Disc Management shows the drive as Online but
> will not allow me to allocate a driver letter. Partition
> Magic shows the drive as bad and only offers the option to
> format it.

As I have NO experience with PM, preferring to work with this
stuff in DOS, I can not comment on Pennywise's suggestion.

In any event, repartitioning or doing equally major operations
without using an UPS is just reckless at best.

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- illyria

Re: Power outage while using Partition Magic 8.0 has left disc marked 'BAD'
 

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:52:39 +0100, M wrote:

>While I was extending a partition on my second hard drive there was a power
>outage. Now the drive no longer shows in Explorer and Disc Management shows

This is why I have min of 3 PCs, and 6 or 7 hardisks. Need more space,
dump a disk in another PC and create partitions, copy data, leave
original unused for 3 weeks. When it's all backed up from new disk, have
another disk to reuse.

>the drive as Online but will not allow me to allocate a driver letter.
>Partition Magic shows the drive as bad and only offers the option to format
>it.

The blurb in the FAQ says the PM8.0 CD is bootable, that should help,
may get around any error while WIn is running.

At this point, buy another HD and an image utility, try making an image
of current disk, if possible with the error. At least if further
problems you may be able to start again or throw a data recovery app
like GetDataBack, see below, at the copy.

>The Partition Info Tool gives the report below. I will be really glad of
>some help on how to put his right and yes I know the data should have been
>backed up!
>
>Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
> ucEndCylinder (48641) must be less than 48641.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...eg=hho&src=hot
How do I handle errors 100-199?

If PartitionMagic does not automatically fix these errors, a sure way to
resolve these errors it to do the following:

1 Back up all the data that is in the defective partitions.
2 Delete the defective partitions.
3 Create new partitions.
4 Restore all your data to the new partitions.

<snip>

Document ID: 2004061486839062
Last Modified: 11/01/2006
Date Created: 04/13/2004
Operating System(s): Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows
98SE, Windows Me, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Pro, Windows 2000, MS-DOS
Product(s): Norton PartitionMagic 8.0, PartitionMagic 8.0


Depending on OS, FAT or NTFS version of GetDataBack
www.runtime.org

Me

Re: Power outage while using Partition Magic 8.0 has left disc marked 'BAD'
 

You should be using an UPS solution and have your machine or machines
plugged into it for the very reason of a power outage. The UPS would have
kicked in with its battery and supplied the needed power for awhile when the
power was lost or interrupted.

Re: Power outage while using Partition Magic 8.0 has left disc marked 'BAD'
 

Mr. Arnold "contributed" in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:

> You should be using an UPS solution and have your machine or machines
> plugged into it for the very reason of a power outage. The UPS would
> have kicked in with its battery and supplied the needed power for
> awhile when the power was lost or interrupted.
>
>

True, but that's too late for the poor sod now, eh?

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Re: Power outage while using Partition Magic 8.0 has left disc marked 'BAD'
 

"M" <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote in message
news:5ipm3bF3o2gn7U1@mid.individual.net...
> While I was extending a partition on my second hard drive there was a
> power outage. Now the drive no longer shows in Explorer and Disc
> Management shows the drive as Online but will not allow me to allocate a
> driver letter. Partition Magic shows the drive as bad and only offers the
> option to format it.
>
> The Partition Info Tool gives the report below. I will be really glad of
> some help on how to put his right and yes I know the data should have been
> backed up!
>
> Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
> ucEndCylinder (48641) must be less than 48641.
>
>
> Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
> Actual values are:
> 0 0 80 0 0 3 3C 48641 80 53 2 781422756
> Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
> ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 3.
> Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
> ucEndCylinder (48641) must be less than 48641.
> Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
> ucEndHead expected to be 254, not 80.
> Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
> ucEndSector expected to be 63, not 53.
>
Can anyone recommend a data recovery specialist, this is a 400 GB drive with
about 270 GB of data. I would also appreciate a guide to cost.
Thank you.

Re: Power outage while using Partition Magic 8.0 has left disc marked 'BAD'
 

M "contributed" in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:

> "M" <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote in message
> news:5ipm3bF3o2gn7U1@mid.individual.net...
>> While I was extending a partition on my second hard drive there was a
>> power outage. Now the drive no longer shows in Explorer and Disc
>> Management shows the drive as Online but will not allow me to
>> allocate a driver letter. Partition Magic shows the drive as bad and
>> only offers the option to format it.
>>
>> The Partition Info Tool gives the report below. I will be really
>> glad of some help on how to put his right and yes I know the data
>> should have been backed up!
>>
>> Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
>> ucEndCylinder (48641) must be less than 48641.
>>
>>
>> Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
>> Actual values are:
>> 0 0 80 0 0 3 3C 48641 80 53 2
>> 781422756
>> Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
>> ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 3.
>> Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
>> ucEndCylinder (48641) must be less than 48641.
>> Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
>> ucEndHead expected to be 254, not 80.
>> Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
>> ucEndSector expected to be 63, not 53.
>>
> Can anyone recommend a data recovery specialist, this is a 400 GB
> drive with about 270 GB of data. I would also appreciate a guide to
> cost. Thank you.
>
>
>

1000 US$ per Gb of data. Shipping the drive back and forth will be
accounted on you. Satisfaction not guaranteed.

--
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at the local cinema.

Re: Power outage while using Partition Magic 8.0 has left disc marked 'BAD'
 

> Can anyone recommend a data recovery specialist, this is a 400 GB drive
> with about 270 GB of data. I would also appreciate a guide to cost.
> Thank you.

I recommend the phone book and the Yellow Pages.

Re: Power outage while using Partition Magic 8.0 has left disc marked 'BAD'
 

"M" <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote in
news:5ipm3bF3o2gn7U1@mid.individual.net:

> While I was extending a partition on my second hard drive there was a
> power outage. Now the drive no longer shows in Explorer and Disc
> Management shows the drive as Online but will not allow me to allocate
> a driver letter. Partition Magic shows the drive as bad and only
> offers the option to format it.

I would say you are borked, having had exactly the same problem once. I had
massive data corruption, and even though using a recovery program appeared
to have saved most of it, it was all jumbled. For instance, an MP3 appeared
intact, but when you played it, it was three or four different songs all
jumbled together. Live and learn - never do partitioning operations without
a UPS.

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