Partition lost

[puneet brar]

i have windows vista with me
and have a laptop and the partition size was 180 gb and i wanted it to resize and i used acronis disk director suite and tried resizing it but the system hanged while resizing and the partiton it showed was unknown any help on how can i recover data as now i cannot even boot my system my data is very much critical so if one can help :o

[K0LO]

puneet:

Can you boot your laptop from the Disk Director recovery disk? After booting from the CD, choose "Manual" mode. What does Disk Director show for your former Vista partition? If there are no partitions shown, try running the Recovery Expert to see if it can find and repair your partition.