Inaccessible partition

[OilSheikh]

My Hard drive has two partitions. I was running checkdisk in Windows on the secondary partition but as it was taking long, I cancelled it. Since then, I can't access the partition at all and can now only format or delete it.

Any ideas on how I should repair the partition ?


Thanks....

[spoon_]

Partition Magic should be able to fix it...

[OilSheikh]

Partition Magic should be able to fix it...

Link ?

[spoon_]

Try here:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...on-Magic.shtml

or here:

http://www.partition-tool.com/

[OilSheikh]

Try here:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...on-Magic.shtml

or here:

http://www.partition-tool.com/

Parition Magic 8 does not work with Win7 , even in XP compatibility mode. When you launch the program, you get a message saying that bad partition detected at some number address and you get the option to fix it. You let the fix take place and then some error and program closes.

EASEUS was pretty useless. It did not let me fix the partition when I chose the corrupt partition.

Active Partition recovery seems to be able to see my partition and the files in it but you have to 'pay' to do any recovry!

[jim]

This is always a pain in the neck. The only tool I've ever found to work reliably is Acronis Disk Director, but it isn't cheap.

The freeware equivalents (in my opinion) are horrendous. Never found one that actually does what I want it to.

[blueball]

I use Paragon's solutions for all disk stuff (ever since Acronis lost the ability to backup over USB2 at anything other than half speed).

Try Paragon Partition Manager.

[OilSheikh]

Well, nothing worked!

Active partition recovery was the only program which could see my files and folders in the partition.

My other partition on the HDD also disappeared and this time I used Samsung's ESTOOL to run a diagnostic and was able to see my drive and files in Windows.

[Kumagoro]

In windows disk management what does the partition come up as? I once had a partition
change into something different that I had never seen before. Unfortunately I cant recall what it
was but if I see it I will remember.

To fix it I had to change some kind of marker for the partition using the command prompt.
The number 25 comes to my mind possibly something to do with NTFS.

Hopefully that makes some sense, I am sufferinｇ from jet lag and this fricking japanese keyboard
is doing my head in.

[OilSheikh]

In windows disk management what does the partition come up as? I once had a partition
change into something different that I had never seen before. Unfortunately I cant recall what it
was but if I see it I will remember.

To fix it I had to change some kind of marker for the partition using the command prompt.
The number 25 comes to my mind possibly something to do with NTFS.

Hopefully that makes some sense, I am sufferinｇ from jet lag and this fricking japanese keyboard
is doing my head in.

Its showing the original partition as RAW. Tried formatting and even that fails! Guess I'll ahve to use ESTOOL to do a low level format on the entire drive!

[Kumagoro]

What happened to me may have been the same and it changed from NTFS to RAW..

Look up `partition changed from ntfs to raw` or something like that and you should hopefully
find info about changing the partition type. I had a quick look and the number is 07 not 25

I think I changed mine to something else and then back to 07, it brought it back with all files intact
and bootable again.

I think I may have used diskpart to do the above