Help! Partition Cmdr screwup, C: missing

Troy Cauble

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Dec 22, 2001, 1:28:37 PM12/22/01

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Happy Holidays All,

Help!

I was enlarging my C: partition when Partition Commander froze up on me
(in the last phase, "Saving System Information").
After a hard reboot, I was stuck in a loop: "Partition Interrupted,
use restart disk", "Restart complete, reboot", repeat.

Partition Commander e-mail support told me to "fdisk /mbr" from my
ME floppy boot and then reboot. It didn't work and now their support
people are out until the New Year!

(Please no "Use Partition Magic, instead" responses, unless it will
repair this mess.)

Anyway, fdisk from the ME boot floppy now displays the following:

Partition Status Type Volume Label MBytes System Usage
1 A Non-DOS 8080
21%
2 EXT DOS 30067
79%

The logical drives in my extended partition are OK (but labeled
one-off because C:, the primary, is missing).

Judging from the other posts I've Googled, Partition 1 should be
smaller, about 31 MBytes. Somehow it's been "combined" with the
approx. 8 Gig primary partition that followed it. (Is this right?)

So, how do I fix this?

I believe that C: data is OK and that I just need to know where it
starts and how to tell the partition table.
I *really* want to restore the C: partition because my WinME
recovery disk will reformat the entire drive. (I know, I could
buy a retail Windows disk.)

If it matters, Linux tools are a possibility, Mandrake is installed
in some of the logical partitions. I could rescue and put lilo in the
MBR, but I don't know anything that would fix the partition table.

Thanks,
-troy

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Van

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Dec 23, 2001, 1:55:50 AM12/23/01

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"Troy Cauble" <tca...@optonline.net> wrote in message news:<ph4V7.140691$bs2.23...@news02.optonline.net>...

Hi You try R-STUDIO. It restores files if their partition structures
are damaged for all hosts including W98. It supports file systems:
FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 (created and updated by Win2000).
For more information look site http://www.r-tt.com. Best regards

Troy Cauble

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Dec 23, 2001, 11:19:35 AM12/23/01

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"Van" <vm...@themail.com> wrote in message
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Thanks Van. I'd already searched and found R-STUDIO. I even downloaded
a demo to my laptop. It looks pretty powerful.

But it's a Windows program and I can't boot Windows on the damaged
machine. So short of buying another drive or borrowing another desktop,
it can't help me. (Correct me if I'm wrong!)

Also, I was hoping (naively?) to find a way to repair the partition table in
place,
not recover the files to another large HD so I can wipe the original and
start over.

Thanks,
-troy

(Followup-To set to comp.os.ms-windows.misc)

Troy Cauble

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Dec 24, 2001, 8:23:55 AM12/24/01

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"Troy Cauble" <tca...@optonline.net> wrote in message
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Ugh. I ran the Partition Commander floppy again. PC had left the
partition hidden while working on it. I "unhid" it and the partition
table is now OK.

The bad news is that the data on the C: partition is hosed. It won't
boot. I was increasing it from 5.5G to 8G and now there is 7.8G of
data on it! Maybe I can find the missing files in some directory...

-troy

Tina

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Dec 27, 2001, 1:28:17 AM12/27/01

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"Troy Cauble" <tca...@optonline.net> wrote in message news:<L%FV7.167696$bs2.28...@news02.optonline.net>...

Hi! You try R-STUDIO for recovering of data on the your disk C.For
more information look site http://www.r-tt.com. Happy New Year!