Am I screwed? (Drive Image Failure)

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AG
"break/break" <> wrote in message
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> So I'm using Drive Image in DOS to resize a partition by grabbing some
> unallocated free space. After applying the changes it starts to resize,
> and hangs up at about 14% of the process. I decide to leave it be, and
> two hours later, no changes. Not wanting to jack it up, I leave it
> overnight. In the morning, no changes. I'm forced to reboot.
> Now, of course, I can't access the drive as such. Windows reports it as
> a hidden partition with the same size as before I tried to futz with it.
> Any suggestions on programs to get that data onto another drive before
> I reformat it?
> Thanks for any assistance.

AG

So I'm using Drive Image in DOS to resize a partition by grabbing some
unallocated free space. After applying the changes it starts to resize,
and hangs up at about 14% of the process. I decide to leave it be, and
two hours later, no changes. Not wanting to jack it up, I leave it
overnight. In the morning, no changes. I'm forced to reboot.
Now, of course, I can't access the drive as such. Windows reports it as
a hidden partition with the same size as before I tried to futz with it.
Any suggestions on programs to get that data onto another drive before
I reformat it?
Thanks for any assistance.

break/break

On Mon, 9 May 2005 14:01:24 -0700 , break/break <>
wrote:

>So I'm using Drive Image in DOS to resize a partition by grabbing some
>unallocated free space. After applying the changes it starts to resize,
>and hangs up at about 14% of the process. I decide to leave it be, and
>two hours later, no changes. Not wanting to jack it up, I leave it
>overnight. In the morning, no changes. I'm forced to reboot.
>Now, of course, I can't access the drive as such. Windows reports it as
>a hidden partition with the same size as before I tried to futz with it.
> Any suggestions on programs to get that data onto another drive before
>I reformat it?
>Thanks for any assistance.


If I recall correctly, Drive image has an option somwhere for
hiding/unhiding partittions. Run the program again and look for those
settings....seee if you can unhide it.

M

mhaase-at-springmind.com

First,

Use PartitionMagic - it's great and I've never seen it fail even on
really crap hardware

Ok...on to the problem...did you make a rescue disk for the operation?
Things can get very tricky from here without it.

I've seen Linux boxes able to mount bad FAT16/32 drives (if yours was
one) and rescue the data that way...but that is a bit of an effort if
you dont have access to one...

break/break wrote:
> So I'm using Drive Image in DOS to resize a partition by grabbing some
> unallocated free space. After applying the changes it starts to resize,
> and hangs up at about 14% of the process. I decide to leave it be, and
> two hours later, no changes. Not wanting to jack it up, I leave it
> overnight. In the morning, no changes. I'm forced to reboot.
> Now, of course, I can't access the drive as such. Windows reports it as
> a hidden partition with the same size as before I tried to futz with it.
> Any suggestions on programs to get that data onto another drive before
> I reformat it?
> Thanks for any assistance.

James C

mhaase-at-springmind.com wrote:
> On Mon, 9 May 2005 14:01:24 -0700 , break/break <>
> wrote:
>
>
>>So I'm using Drive Image in DOS to resize a partition by grabbing some
>>unallocated free space. After applying the changes it starts to resize,
>>and hangs up at about 14% of the process. I decide to leave it be, and
>>two hours later, no changes. Not wanting to jack it up, I leave it
>>overnight. In the morning, no changes. I'm forced to reboot.
>>Now, of course, I can't access the drive as such. Windows reports it as
>>a hidden partition with the same size as before I tried to futz with it.
>> Any suggestions on programs to get that data onto another drive before
>>I reformat it?
>>Thanks for any assistance.
>
>
>
> If I recall correctly, Drive image has an option somwhere for
> hiding/unhiding partittions. Run the program again and look for those
> settings....seee if you can unhide it.
>
> M
>
>
That did it! Thanks.
And thanks to everyone else for their suggestions.

b/b

break/break

Barry Watzman wrote:

> Not necessarily. The fact that the partition is hidden is just a bit
> set in the boot record.
>
> But you said: "I'm using Drive Image in DOS to resize a partition ...."
>
> Drive Image doesn't DO that!
>
> Partition Magic does, but not drive image.

Not so. Booted up with Drive Image again, after it scanned the drives I
selected the partition in question, went to Tools, Hide/Unhide, and
unhid it.

Thanks,

b/b
>
> Anyway, Partition Magic (NOT Drive Image) can also reset the "hidden
> partition" flag. Now that may well not be the entire extent (or even a
> significant part of) your problem, but that in and of itself is
> something that can be dealt with.
>
>
> break/break wrote:
>
>> So I'm using Drive Image in DOS to resize a partition by grabbing some
>> unallocated free space. After applying the changes it starts to
>> resize, and hangs up at about 14% of the process. I decide to leave
>> it be, and two hours later, no changes. Not wanting to jack it up, I
>> leave it overnight. In the morning, no changes. I'm forced to reboot.
>> Now, of course, I can't access the drive as such. Windows reports it
>> as a hidden partition with the same size as before I tried to futz
>> with it. Any suggestions on programs to get that data onto another
>> drive before I reformat it?
>> Thanks for any assistance.

break/break

James C <.@.com> wrote in news:42813963$:

>
> First,
>
> Use PartitionMagic - it's great and I've never seen it fail even
> on really crap hardware

Oh yeah? It's failed on me many times on many different pieces of
hardware!

Adam

Adam Leinss