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.
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.
http://www.partition-manager.com/
Is the one I use, JB.
At work we have used Hard drive regenerator in the past, it's free
Quote from: Rik on Mar 31, 2011, 11:51:23
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.
Good luck, JB.
Quote from: Rik on Mar 31, 2011, 17:06:20
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 :thumb:
Thanks for that, JB. I stopped at v10 with Acronis, they seemed to be losing their way after that.
What are you using for backup now Rik?
v10. :)
:thumb:
This is not the partition you are looking for ;D