Help Please ! Have lost some Hard Disk Partitions

[JB]

Hello all,

I'm looking for some help please. I have just used Acronis 2011 to reinstall drive c: on my Windows XP system. All seemed to go well, but now I discover that the other partitions (d:, e:, f:) seem to have gone missing. The c: reinstall seems to have gone OK with the size being reported correctly.

Can anyone suggest a tool that will allow me to explore the rest of the disk, with a view to getting back the partitions?

I have done this years ago but for the life of me can't remember what I used.

Any help really welcome.

Thanks,

JB.

[Ray]

Have you had a look in Windows Disk Management? they may still be there but not allocated drive letters, otherwise you could download a trial of O & O Partition Manager and see what that shows up.

[Rik]

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

Is the one I use, JB.

[Glenn]

At work we have used Hard drive regenerator in the past, it's free

[JB]

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

Is the one I use, JB.

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I tried Partition Manager as per Rik's suggestion. It has managed to completely recover drives d:, e: and f:

So I am just missing drive g: Drives c:, d: and e: were primary partitions with f: and g: both as logical drives in an extended partition. Partition manager has managed to recover drive f: from the logical partition but fails and complains it cannot process logical drive g: even though it can see the unallocated space.

I guess I will try O&O or similar to try and pull out some of the files from the remaining space, although from experience I know this method is seldom satisfactory.

Thanks for the help chaps.

[Rik]

Good luck, JB.

[JB]

Good luck, JB.

Thanks Rik.

Finally got it all sorted out after a waste of a day. Managed to recover all the files from logical drive g: by using Easeus Partition Master 4. To my surprise all the files recovered with their correct names and date stamps and in the correct directories. There were a lot of old broken files but they had been previously deleted / overwritten on the partition.

I think that's the end of me and Acronis as it just doesn't seem as good as in the early (V9) days. I'm giving the Easeus Todo Backup V2 a go now. It seems to work fine albeit the backup file size is slightly larger. However, it is free for personal use.

Happy bunny again now 

[Rik]

Thanks for that, JB. I stopped at v10 with Acronis, they seemed to be losing their way after that.

[JB]

What are you using for backup now Rik?

[Rik]

v10.

[JB]

 

[pctech]

This is not the partition you are looking for