jphume
April 14th, 2008, 02:18 PM
I have an XP system with 3 partitions (all NTFS) a small recovery partition (4.657 GB) a 15.01 GB active partition with the operating system and some data on it and a 92.12 GB logical partition. I attempted to add 10GB to the active partition from the logical drive using Disk Director under windows. While the process was running, I twice saw the message "Cannot write to sector 0". Upon reboot, I got the blue screen of death with the message "stop: 0x000000ed..."
Using a Disk Director boot CD I found:
The D: partition (logical) was gone
The C: partition was intact and still 15.01 GB, but I could not explore it and it has the error "File system error: invalid partition size"
The recovery partition appears to be OK (good thing because the computer didn't come with an XP install CD)
I have tried:
Recovering D: using the recovery expert - no luck
Recreating D: - worked, but I still cannot explore it
I am trying to recover C:. The first pass did not find any partitions and the second pass looks like it may take all day.
I have a complete backup of both partitions, but not an image, so reconstuction is a last resort.
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Decided to use the recovery disks and backups. Process was just too slow.
Jeff
Using a Disk Director boot CD I found:
The D: partition (logical) was gone
The C: partition was intact and still 15.01 GB, but I could not explore it and it has the error "File system error: invalid partition size"
The recovery partition appears to be OK (good thing because the computer didn't come with an XP install CD)
I have tried:
Recovering D: using the recovery expert - no luck
Recreating D: - worked, but I still cannot explore it
I am trying to recover C:. The first pass did not find any partitions and the second pass looks like it may take all day.
I have a complete backup of both partitions, but not an image, so reconstuction is a last resort.
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Decided to use the recovery disks and backups. Process was just too slow.
Jeff