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killer_cain

right this is my first post, so hi all, i have 6 partitions on my HDD
i loaded on a partitioning utility, now 2 of the partitions are unreadable, far as I can tell the FAT and or partition table are damaged, does anyone know of a way, or some utility to fix it without loosing data (or at least able to read the data) my main year college project is in there i'm desperate!

I appreciate any help!

strat

You cold try some flavour of Partition Magic and see if it can read the data and maybe convert it back to FAT/FAT32

If your running win2k/xp then look in the hard disk management in the admin tools

Kali

first of all its partition magic thats to blame.. its killed countless partitions on me in the past and i reckon about 13gigs of data in total (including projects like yourself)... mostly mp3s though

anyway, unless you know the starting sector of the data, your pretty much screwed.. first time it happened to me i tried creating a new partition entry in the mbr using linux fdisk to point to where the data should start, doing this i managed (quite a fluke tbh) to get back about 200mb.. but i never came across a tool that would search the harddisks raw data for a "beginning of partition" entry... thats whats needed, then the partition structure (and therefore data) can be restored pointing to that location.

flamegrill

there is a unix app called "gpart". i remeber phaxx using this when something deleted either partition tables or corrupted his disks mbr. but it got everything back.

i think this is the url in question, but its been 6 months at least if not longer since he had this problem.

http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/


Regards,

Paul aka flamegrill (hehe)

killer_cain

thanks for the help guys i'll give it a go!