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Partition problems

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junfan

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I have a maxtor 120gb IDE drive, I had it broken up into three partitions, C: D: E:

C: 20gb
D: 90ish gb
E: 3 gb

I wanted to merge them all together using Partition Magic, move some data around, than make some new partitions.

Unfortunately I got an error message during the process "Error 1520: External attribute header mismatch (EA3905F0)"

After the reboot "drivemapper" popped up and was supposed to move all the data from D: to a C: folder that I specified, unfortunately it didn't work, and the folder is empty and there is no D: drive recognized by windows.

I'm using PM verision 8.01 from 3/03

PM reports:

Local Disk C: - NTFS 20002 size 18154mb used 1848 unused primary
(*)extended - 97237 size 0 used 97237 unused primary
(*)unallocated 97237 size 0 used 0 unused logical

The extended has options to delete or resize/move parition

The unallocated has options to create or "undelete" partition, but when i choose undelete it says the only parition available to undelete is a NTFS partition that's only 2195 mb listed as logical. I'm thinking that's the E: partition.

I had getdataback for NTFS around because I had a IBM deskstar take a big crap a few years back, so i used that and as soon as I start it up, it can see the D: partition and says "MISSING SIGNATURE IN PARTITION TABLE etc..." and reports D: as a DOS extended LBA.

Getdataback is able to recover almost all the data, but it's 99% unuseable. I have a strong feeling the data is still there anyone have any ideas?

I also tried ONtrack Easyrecovery, but it didn't do much to help.

PM website tells me to use CHKDSK /F on the partition, however I don't see how that could help, or get my data back.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/power...gic&svy=&csm=no

So basically windows can't see D:\, and I can't get to my data (which is hopefully still there), any help is apprecaited.
 
Id avoid CHKDSK at this time, its likely to discard the data and convert it to .CHK extentions (orphaned files)

merge is the most problamatic function in Partition Magic
I generally avoid it, instaed if possible relying on copying data to a different partition and simple resizing and moving of partitions

most problems arise when you ask partition Magic to perform multiple operations at one time
so I always do a single task then reboot and do the next

I think your suspicions are correct
Id recommend File Scavenger for recovery
(Ive had better results with it than any other ap Ive tried)

and possible repair
Disk Patch

next time make those recovery disks in Partition Magic ;)

you could also try Knoppix to see what it can see
might do the trick and its freeware
 
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