Power loss during Partition re-sizing - PqRP format
Earlier on i was trying to re-size a partition i had using partition magic, half way through the partition process it froze up and i needed to pull the plug. I instantly knew it wasnt going to be pritty so booted up with the worse case scenerio in mind, me loosing 195 gigs of music, films, games & back up documents. Ironically enough, for once, it looks like i may well be right.
The 2nd partition(G) doesnt get detected under my computer now, opening up partition magic shows the partition is there but with the label 'PqRP'. It wont let you touch it with anything but the format key & assign drive letter though. Initially i tried to assign a drive letter to it, and half way through the process the partition appeared under my computer, i could open it and have a look at the files, but after a few seconds it got an error(error during the re-naming) and it disappeared again. This did prove that all my files are still there though.
Iv googled 'PqRP' and apparently its the name assigned [by partition magic] during alterations to a partition, it re-names the partition to that, does the job, then re-names it back to the original drive letter once its finished. Obviously when the PC cuts out half way through it didnt get a chance to name it back to the original drive letter.
The problem is, i dont really understand PCs enough to get me out of this situation, iv spent hours reading, re-reading and reading again up on ways of fixing it, yet the majority of it makes very little sense to me. Iv got a couple of links which seems to be the most usefull but neither make a great deal of sense to me(in terms of correcting the problem). Is there any chance someone with a bit more experience can give me a brief run down of what it is i should be doing?
thanks in advance guys.
edit: the links
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1940874.php
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=77451
edit: similar situations but with the answer the wrong side of a debit card(2 words: University student :/ )
https://secure.experts-exchange.com/...6y%3D7&rsid=10
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper..._20694789.html
Re: Power loss during Partition re-sizing - PqRP format
Hello people
I had a similar situation, I had been tardy with my backups and when reinstalling Windows I had PM8 on and was resizing a partition, I dont know what happened whether it was a power or programme related thing but I cam back to find my PC restarting and the 80gb partition I was resizing is now a 160gb PqRP partition, I was hoping to be able to restore this back as in all cases like this it had some recent files that are far more important than the whole of the backup I have!
I have bought a 500gb seagate freedom drive to copy it onto, but as windows isnt seeing it anyway (I can only see it in PM8) I dont know how to copy it to the HDD before I try to recover it.
I arent a student but I have limited resources and dont want to buy useless software.
As I understand it I need to get some recovery software, I tried searching for "file scavenger" but havent found it yet, any ideas and help with procedures?
It needs to be fairly fool proof as at the moment I ended up re-installing XP on my "H" drive when I had wanted it on "C" but C is now my old photos drive that was "G" before I started cocking stuff up!
If I can retrieve the data that would be great, then I will completely wipe my old drive and start again
of course after reading all the stuff about PM8 can anyone recommend a similar product that is easy to use but reliable..
thanks in advance
Re: Power loss during Partition re-sizing - PqRP format
The best thing is not to use Partition Magic 8 at all. It is VERY old and hasn't been updated for a long time, and as a result there is much better software to use.
Acronis Disk Manager on the other hand has worked well for me, its as easy to use as PM8, and I've never had any problems with it. It is also constantly updated, unlike PM8.
Re: Power loss during Partition re-sizing - PqRP format
cheers Master
Anyone got any other hints?
Re: Power loss during Partition re-sizing - PqRP format
will the Acronis disk manager sort out the PqRP partition as well in its recovery section?
Re: Power loss during Partition re-sizing - PqRP format
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Originally Posted by
Uxter
will the Acronis disk manager sort out the PqRP partition as well in its recovery section?
Possibly I'm not sure though, you will have to play around with it. I've never needed to use it.
Re: Power loss during Partition re-sizing - PqRP format
Hey, I'm having the same problem. Could you send me the files you mentioned you would send? My email is patrickboatner AT gmail DOT com
thanks!
Re: Power loss during Partition re-sizing - PqRP format
Hi, in the end I used filescavenger which I bought off their website, this got back 99.9% of all my lost stuff and the bought Paragon Disk suite to do the partitioning and stuff, but I must admit this can still do some strange things if your not entirely sure what you are doing, I did an image of my c drive and I never noticed but my pc was booting into that all the time, this was my "E" drive and all my prorams were installed on my "C" drive, then as time went on some installed on the C and some drivers on the E, it got into a right mess, especially with my music software, I had VST instruments all over the place and I lost a load of e-mails that were on the OE on the E drive. I found out by mistake after a system crash, so I have spent a lot of time back tracking, in the end I got rid of the E drive and it seems to be OK for now!
This is defo a lesson in BE PREPARED!