Lost Drive D

I don't know what happened but after i installed partition magic 8 for my
windows vista and entered the program, partition magic asked me to fix a
couple of errors and i just pressed yes, and when it was done fixing them it
didn't enter to the program giving me this error "Partition's drive letter
cannot be identified", and as soon as i pressed ok, the windows suddenly
showed a blue error screen and restarted...for my surpirse partition D was
lost (i have 3 partitions) and now i only have partitions C and S...i did a
system restore but it didn't work for some reason:S...
so what shall i do???

 

Hello Raven,

At FIRST access the system with a BARTPE disk or equivalent and save all
your data.

And here you should also have a look:


Best regards

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> I don't know what happened but after i installed partition magic 8 for
> my
> windows vista and entered the program, partition magic asked me to fix
> a
> couple of errors and i just pressed yes, and when it was done fixing
> them it
> didn't enter to the program giving me this error "Partition's drive
> letter
> cannot be identified", and as soon as i pressed ok, the windows
> suddenly
> showed a blue error screen and restarted...for my surpirse partition D
> was
> lost (i have 3 partitions) and now i only have partitions C and S...i
> did a
> system restore but it didn't work for some reason:S...
> so what shall i do???<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

I didn't think that partition magic supported vista . But you may want to
get a copy of paragon partition manager. I think it has some utilities for
recovery. As well you can try Vista pattition manager under Control Panel <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
>Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->



"Raven" <Raven@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:861B220F-997B-4860-BD18-78037B75AA94@microsoft.com...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
>I don't know what happened but after i installed partition magic 8 for my
> windows vista and entered the program, partition magic asked me to fix a
> couple of errors and i just pressed yes, and when it was done fixing them
> it
> didn't enter to the program giving me this error "Partition's drive letter
> cannot be identified", and as soon as i pressed ok, the windows suddenly
> showed a blue error screen and restarted...for my surpirse partition D was
> lost (i have 3 partitions) and now i only have partitions C and S...i did
> a
> system restore but it didn't work for some reason:S...
> so what shall i do??? <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

Actually i did before you even told me to, i can see the 50GB that the
partition D was taking, but i can't see any D partiotion...i press right
click and then try to go to properties or anything but an error occurs that
says:" The operation failed to complete because the Disk management console
view is not up-to-date. Refresh. If the problem persist, then restart Disk
Management or the computer". even after i restart the problem persist!...
how can i get a copy of paragon partition manager????
thanx

"David" wrote:
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> I didn't think that partition magic supported vista . But you may want to
> get a copy of paragon partition manager. I think it has some utilities for
> recovery. As well you can try Vista pattition manager under Control Panel <!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
> >Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
>
>
> "Raven" <Raven@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:861B220F-997B-4860-BD18-78037B75AA94@microsoft.com...<!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
> >I don't know what happened but after i installed partition magic 8 for my
> > windows vista and entered the program, partition magic asked me to fix a
> > couple of errors and i just pressed yes, and when it was done fixing them
> > it
> > didn't enter to the program giving me this error "Partition's drive letter
> > cannot be identified", and as soon as i pressed ok, the windows suddenly
> > showed a blue error screen and restarted...for my surpirse partition D was
> > lost (i have 3 partitions) and now i only have partitions C and S...i did
> > a
> > system restore but it didn't work for some reason:S...
> > so what shall i do??? <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
> <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

what is a BARTPE disk????
and after i do access the system then what shall i do?!
"Meinolf Weber" wrote:
<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> Hello Raven,
>
> At FIRST access the system with a BARTPE disk or equivalent and save all
> your data.
>
> And here you should also have a look:
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
> no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!!
> <!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
> > I don't know what happened but after i installed partition magic 8 for
> > my
> > windows vista and entered the program, partition magic asked me to fix
> > a
> > couple of errors and i just pressed yes, and when it was done fixing
> > them it
> > didn't enter to the program giving me this error "Partition's drive
> > letter
> > cannot be identified", and as soon as i pressed ok, the windows
> > suddenly
> > showed a blue error screen and restarted...for my surpirse partition D
> > was
> > lost (i have 3 partitions) and now i only have partitions C and S...i
> > did a
> > system restore but it didn't work for some reason:S...
> > so what shall i do???<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
>
> <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

"David" <ve3tgy@sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> I didn't think that partition magic supported vista <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

It does not, according to Norton's web site.

Acronis Disk Director does as do many other applications.

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ok now i know that partition magic doesn't work on vista and it was a huge
mistake that i used it...
so plz, i just want to restore my lost partition!

 

I have the exact same problem. My partition d: does not show up in "my
computer". I find it in disk management, but with no drive letter
assigned to it. When i right click it and try to click any of the
options, like "change drive letter and paths" i get the error "The
operation failed to complete because the Disk management console view
is not up-to-date. Refresh. If the problem persist, then restart Disk
Management or the computer" refresh or restart does not help. How can
i get my computer to recognize the partition again! please help.

I have installed partition magic too, and i got the same errors. I
first discoverd d: was gone after having two external disks, one with
two partitions, connected to the computer. I made one of the partitions
on the external disk an "active" partition. After doing this i opened
"my computer", an d: was gone. The other 4 partitions were still there.


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Raven <Raven@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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> ok now i know that partition magic doesn't work on vista and it
> was a huge mistake that i used it...
> so plz, i just want to restore my lost partition!<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

I wish I could offer some help but I can't, I'm sorry.

This won't help at all but the last time Partition Magic messed up my
hard drive I lost EVERYTHING! ALL my partitions, everything. I had to
reformat, re-partition and install Windows XP (it was a few years back)
from scratch and begin rebuilding, it took a very long time. I hope
you have sufficient backups to ease the task, I didn't. I had enough
backup to restore most but some of is gone forever.

I got a removable hard drive and imaging software, once is enough!



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Hi friends,

I have found it.

You can use Test Disk software(search on Google) for fix it.
If you have any questions, you can send mail to me
(viettrucle@yahoo.com) . I am very happy because I have just fixed my
hard drive.

Good luck !!!


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goldcomputer

 

Thank you very much for the software testdrive. I have fixed the
problem. Grateful God!!!!


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thuanan

 

I've had similar prob

n man was i screwed or not!!

well thz is what i did

use GetDataBack for NTFS... do a complete system scan

u'll b able to see the partition... its easy to figure out.. then scan
the partition to recover the data and follow the instructions

one u do that.. congratulations u've got ur data back!! literally!!

NOW.. wht i did.. copied my recovered data on 16 DVDS!! cux thr was TOO
much data!!

and then using the recovery drive restored the laptop to original
factory setting!

GetDataBack is a LIFE SAVER!!

hope it helps


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EdenScully <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote:

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>hope it helps <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

I think the person with the problem and who posted about it IN JANUARY
OF 2008 has fixed it by now.