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Hi

I was merging 2 equal-sized partitions on my USB2.0
external Maxtor 80gig drive, having used Partition
Magic 8 many times with no probs ever.

It appeared to freeze during the merge process at
around 17% of total process, so I went out for 2
hours to be sure.


When I next checked it was at 24% and I again
watched it for 1/2 hour with no motion, so I assumed frozen, and rebooted
the USB
drive. Fine.

Now XP does not see the drive in windows, tho i dloaded testdisk (a dos
prog) and
it sees the second partition and provides this info:____________

TestDisk 5.3, Data Recovery Utility, May 2004

Christophe GRENIER
http://www.cgsecurity.org


Disk /dev/sdb - CHS 9964 255 63 - 78159 MB
Check current partition structure

Partition Start End Size

1 P FAT32 LBA 0 1 1 4996 254 63 80276742 [STORE 1]
2 E extended LBA 4997 0 1 9963 254 63 79794855

No partition is bootable
5 L PMagic recovery 4997 1 1 9963 254 63 79794792


[ Quit ]
*=Primary bootable P=Primary L=Logical E=Extended D=Deleted
Quit this section
_________________________________

Upon restoring Partma 8 it says it has detected an
improper shutdown and is searching for 'recovery markers', yet it just keeps
searching
and searching.....

Any ideas??
Thx


Seph

Hello "~S~"

I had problems after a PM* Merge - all my files seemed intact when viewed
via Norton Commander under DOS, but I couldn't get into Windows ...
eventually found a mention in the PM8 Help files saying that sometimes the
system files get displaced in a merge.

The cure is to run sys.com - boot your system from your Startup/Rescue
floppy, and at the DOS prompt a:\ type sys.com c:\ This places the sytem
files at the start of the drive.

It worked for me ... best of luck.

Charles.

"~S~" <> wrote in message
news:n94yc.16947$...
> Hi
>
> I was merging 2 equal-sized partitions on my USB2.0
> external Maxtor 80gig drive, having used Partition
> Magic 8 many times with no probs ever.
>
> It appeared to freeze during the merge process at
> around 17% of total process, so I went out for 2
> hours to be sure.
>
>
> When I next checked it was at 24% and I again
> watched it for 1/2 hour with no motion, so I assumed frozen, and rebooted
> the USB
> drive. Fine.
>
> Now XP does not see the drive in windows, tho i dloaded testdisk (a dos
> prog) and
> it sees the second partition and provides this info:____________
>
> TestDisk 5.3, Data Recovery Utility, May 2004
>
> Christophe GRENIER
> http://www.cgsecurity.org
>
>
> Disk /dev/sdb - CHS 9964 255 63 - 78159 MB
> Check current partition structure
>
> Partition Start End Size
>
> 1 P FAT32 LBA 0 1 1 4996 254 63 80276742 [STORE 1]
> 2 E extended LBA 4997 0 1 9963 254 63 79794855
>
> No partition is bootable
> 5 L PMagic recovery 4997 1 1 9963 254 63 79794792
>
>
> [ Quit ]
> *=Primary bootable P=Primary L=Logical E=Extended D=Deleted
> Quit this section
> _________________________________
>
> Upon restoring Partma 8 it says it has detected an
> improper shutdown and is searching for 'recovery markers', yet it just
keeps
> searching
> and searching.....
>
> Any ideas??
> Thx
>
>
> Seph
>
>
>
>

groovy, except if you read what i wrote, there are no system files, this is
not an os drive.
thx anyway

~S~

anyone else?


"Charles" <> wrote in message
news:cab029$ebl$...
> Hello "~S~"
>
> I had problems after a PM* Merge - all my files seemed intact when viewed
> via Norton Commander under DOS, but I couldn't get into Windows ...
> eventually found a mention in the PM8 Help files saying that sometimes the
> system files get displaced in a merge.
>
> The cure is to run sys.com - boot your system from your Startup/Rescue
> floppy, and at the DOS prompt a:\ type sys.com c:\ This places the sytem
> files at the start of the drive.
>
> It worked for me ... best of luck.
>
> Charles.
>
> "~S~" <> wrote in message
> news:n94yc.16947$...
> > Hi
> >
> > I was merging 2 equal-sized partitions on my USB2.0
> > external Maxtor 80gig drive, having used Partition
> > Magic 8 many times with no probs ever.
> >
> > It appeared to freeze during the merge process at
> > around 17% of total process, so I went out for 2
> > hours to be sure.
> >
> >
> > When I next checked it was at 24% and I again
> > watched it for 1/2 hour with no motion, so I assumed frozen, and
rebooted
> > the USB
> > drive. Fine.
> >
> > Now XP does not see the drive in windows, tho i dloaded testdisk (a dos
> > prog) and
> > it sees the second partition and provides this info:____________
> >
> > TestDisk 5.3, Data Recovery Utility, May 2004
> >
> > Christophe GRENIER
> > http://www.cgsecurity.org
> >
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdb - CHS 9964 255 63 - 78159 MB
> > Check current partition structure
> >
> > Partition Start End Size
> >
> > 1 P FAT32 LBA 0 1 1 4996 254 63 80276742 [STORE 1]
> > 2 E extended LBA 4997 0 1 9963 254 63 79794855
> >
> > No partition is bootable
> > 5 L PMagic recovery 4997 1 1 9963 254 63 79794792
> >
> >
> > [ Quit ]
> > *=Primary bootable P=Primary L=Logical E=Extended D=Deleted
> > Quit this section
> > _________________________________
> >
> > Upon restoring Partma 8 it says it has detected an
> > improper shutdown and is searching for 'recovery markers', yet it just
> keeps
> > searching
> > and searching.....
> >
> > Any ideas??
> > Thx
> >
> >
> > Seph
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Just wanna report in that I did finally find a great program that is able to
recover
all my files perfectly, and should be useful to anyone in same situation.
Its called getbackdata for fat (or ntfs)(GBDFF), and after an hour scan it
showed
me all the recovered files in a list that was saveable. I sent in my credit
card
payment for a licence, and had access to all my files. Most of this last
sentence
is true.

I am right in the middle of copying back all the saved files to another
drive so
I can reformat/repartition the drive again.

Also tried using 'Recover my Files'(RMF) another prog of same type. Here's
the comparison:

GBDFF works and took 1 hour for scan.
RMF took 16 hours, froze at 97% and was totally useless, also did not
recover names
at all or directories.
GBDFF is recovering both at about 70% success rate in naming files. Other
30% is
misnamed or lost.

Better than I could have hoped.

~S~

"~S~" <> wrote in message
news:nSkyc.137354$ ...
> groovy, except if you read what i wrote, there are no system files, this
is
> not an os drive.
> thx anyway
>
> ~S~
>
> anyone else?
>
>
> "Charles" <> wrote in message
> news:cab029$ebl$...
> > Hello "~S~"
> >
> > I had problems after a PM* Merge - all my files seemed intact when
viewed
> > via Norton Commander under DOS, but I couldn't get into Windows ...
> > eventually found a mention in the PM8 Help files saying that sometimes
the
> > system files get displaced in a merge.
> >
> > The cure is to run sys.com - boot your system from your Startup/Rescue
> > floppy, and at the DOS prompt a:\ type sys.com c:\ This places the
sytem
> > files at the start of the drive.
> >
> > It worked for me ... best of luck.
> >
> > Charles.
> >
> > "~S~" <> wrote in message
> > news:n94yc.16947$...
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I was merging 2 equal-sized partitions on my USB2.0
> > > external Maxtor 80gig drive, having used Partition
> > > Magic 8 many times with no probs ever.
> > >
> > > It appeared to freeze during the merge process at
> > > around 17% of total process, so I went out for 2
> > > hours to be sure.
> > >
> > >
> > > When I next checked it was at 24% and I again
> > > watched it for 1/2 hour with no motion, so I assumed frozen, and
> rebooted
> > > the USB
> > > drive. Fine.
> > >
> > > Now XP does not see the drive in windows, tho i dloaded testdisk (a
dos
> > > prog) and
> > > it sees the second partition and provides this info:____________
> > >
> > > TestDisk 5.3, Data Recovery Utility, May 2004
> > >
> > > Christophe GRENIER
> > > http://www.cgsecurity.org
> > >
> > >
> > > Disk /dev/sdb - CHS 9964 255 63 - 78159 MB
> > > Check current partition structure
> > >
> > > Partition Start End Size
> > >
> > > 1 P FAT32 LBA 0 1 1 4996 254 63 80276742 [STORE
1]
> > > 2 E extended LBA 4997 0 1 9963 254 63 79794855
> > >
> > > No partition is bootable
> > > 5 L PMagic recovery 4997 1 1 9963 254 63 79794792
> > >
> > >
> > > [ Quit ]
> > > *=Primary bootable P=Primary L=Logical E=Extended D=Deleted
> > > Quit this section
> > > _________________________________
> > >
> > > Upon restoring Partma 8 it says it has detected an
> > > improper shutdown and is searching for 'recovery markers', yet it just
> > keeps
> > > searching
> > > and searching.....
> > >
> > > Any ideas??
> > > Thx
> > >
> > >
> > > Seph
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

That would be GetDataBack (not gebackdata).
http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm


On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 12:36:58 -0400, in
<UiGyc.180422$>
~S~ scrawled:

>Just wanna report in that I did finally find a great program that
>is able to recover all my files perfectly, and should be useful to
>anyone in same situation.
>Its called getbackdata for fat (or ntfs)(GBDFF)

<snip>

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true

im winsowd ydxelics

*-)

~S~

awesome program!


"°Mike°" <> wrote in message
news:...
> That would be GetDataBack (not gebackdata).
> http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm
>
>
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 12:36:58 -0400, in
> <UiGyc.180422$>
> ~S~ scrawled:
>
> >Just wanna report in that I did finally find a great program that
> >is able to recover all my files perfectly, and should be useful to
> >anyone in same situation.
> >Its called getbackdata for fat (or ntfs)(GBDFF)
>
> <snip>
>
> --
> Basic computer maintenance
> http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

~S~ wrote:

> Just wanna report in that I did finally find a great program that is able to
> recover
> all my files perfectly, and should be useful to anyone in same situation.

Good...

> GBDFF is recovering both at about 70% success rate in naming files. Other
> 30% is
> misnamed or lost.

....but how does one reconcile "able to recover all my files perfectly"
and "70% success rate...and other 30% is misnamed or lost"

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On 12 Jun 2004 20:23:36 GMT, in
<>
Blinky the Shark scrawled:

>~S~ wrote:
>
>> Just wanna report in that I did finally find a great program that is able to
>> recover
>> all my files perfectly, and should be useful to anyone in same situation.
>
>Good...
>
>> GBDFF is recovering both at about 70% success rate in naming files. Other
>> 30% is
>> misnamed or lost.
>
>...but how does one reconcile "able to recover all my files perfectly"
>and "70% success rate...and other 30% is misnamed or lost"

There's always failures in recovering in this way, as the
software is reading the disk RAW, not from the file system;
it will be including previously deleted files.

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I knew someone would call me on that 70%...I was tired, but really, I got
all back better than I could have hoped. Just a few misnames, and have to
redo directory structures. Big deal. To me its 100%.

also:
>And also backing up the files that you already had, right?
>I mean, you need to save the ones that were trashed, but you probably
>also need to save files you didn't trash, like downloads, installers,
>and all kinds of data files.

Almost none were trashed. I was doing a partition merge, and lost the
partitions info, they had no drive letters assigned anymore, that being the
most obvious prob.

I had meant to try assigning drive letter names again once I moved/copied
all the recovered data to my other partitions/drives, but I forgot once I
had it done, and went straight to reformat. Silly me, but I figured I had
spent nuff time already and was 6am.

But hell I saw the way it recovered, and how come some folders were
recovered empty then the files were found in another sector. Shows you what
a fragmented drive is all about! lol

Man,
I had all my movies, digital photos, band backups mp3's, apps storage, I am
most certainly glad to have recovered.

I keep ghost images of my whole c drive but never for other drives. Probably
still won't, but I will bloody use the boot disks in future.
Maybe. I'm lazy, and tend to enjoy the problem-solving part of repairs too
much for my own good. Also noted that the prog seemed to have a handle on if
I needed to recreate a bootable os partition, which I thankfully did not
have to find out whether it works.

~S~



----- Original Message -----
From: "°Mike°" <>
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: Creeping Christ, I recovered my hard disk!


> On 12 Jun 2004 20:23:36 GMT, in
> <>
> Blinky the Shark scrawled:
>
> >~S~ wrote:
> >
> >> Just wanna report in that I did finally find a great program that is
able to
> >> recover
> >> all my files perfectly, and should be useful to anyone in same
situation.
> >
> >Good...
> >
> >> GBDFF is recovering both at about 70% success rate in naming files.
Other
> >> 30% is
> >> misnamed or lost.
> >
> >...but how does one reconcile "able to recover all my files perfectly"
> >and "70% success rate...and other 30% is misnamed or lost"
>
> There's always failures in recovering in this way, as the
> software is reading the disk RAW, not from the file system;
> it will be including previously deleted files.
>
> --
> Basic computer maintenance
> http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

~S~ wrote:

> I knew someone would call me on that 70%...I was tired, but really, I got
> all back better than I could have hoped. Just a few misnames, and have to
> redo directory structures. Big deal. To me its 100%.

I'd like to buy all of your $100 bills for $70 each. Where shall we
meet?

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