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Partition Lost after changing Drive Letter.

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ECE0105
ECE0105 Original post #1
Feb 23, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Hi,

I had tried changing the Drive letter of a Partition on my second HDD and it shows the status "Unallocated" and I get an error when trying to re-create the partition (Pls. check the Attachment).

Please help in getting the data back from the partition, since I am unable to even format it to a new one.
dare_devil
dare_devil #2
Feb 24, 2008 at 2:48 AM
plz be brief about what you did and how.
i changed my drive laters for many times of my 2 hard disks, i never got any problem. may you do some mistake
ECE0105
ECE0105 #3
Feb 24, 2008 at 4:07 AM
Well, Like I said, I have 2 HDDs, and to diff. b/w the two, I made Partitions C,D,E and F from HDD1 and then G as the Optical Drive and then H & I for HDD2.

It was actually G & H for HDD2 and then I as the DVDRW.
So, I swapped it. The G Drive is actually working fine (Which was H earlier) and no issues with that. But when I changed I to H, it just did not show the status as a NTFS Partition and showed the status as an empty space.
Tried rebooting the PC and tried closing and opening Disk mgmt multiple times to no avail.
Since, I am not able to format the partition, I am unable to recover data as well...
Orange Juice
Orange Juice #4
Feb 24, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Khojne se to bhagwan bhi milta hai............Partition kya cheez hai........
pushkaraj
pushkaraj #5
Feb 24, 2008 at 9:02 PM
if u can, do a system restore. That should solve the problem. Restore ur system to a point before this problem happened.
dare_devil
dare_devil #6
Feb 24, 2008 at 9:43 PM
ECE0105 said:
Well, Like I said, I have 2 HDDs, and to diff. b/w the two, I made Partitions C,D,E and F from HDD1 and then G as the Optical Drive and then H & I for HDD2.

It was actually G & H for HDD2 and then I as the DVDRW.
So, I swapped it. The G Drive is actually working fine (Which was H earlier) and no issues with that. But when I changed I to H, it just did not show the status as a NTFS Partition and showed the status as an empty space.
Tried rebooting the PC and tried closing and opening Disk mgmt multiple times to no avail.
Since, I am not able to format the partition, I am unable to recover data as well...
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if you windows xp bootable cd then boot from it, afetr all steps, when it asks for instalation drive, select your drive, press l for deleting partition, then create partition of unpartitioned space either here or from disk mgmt
i think it may solve your problem