Preacher Man Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 I have 2 hard drives in my pc and i was trying to delete the 3 partions on the one i use for storage and create one big one and its dissapered. i was fiddling about with the settings in disk management (administrative tools/coputer management/storage) i deleted on of the 3 partitions then i think i ballsed up and deleted the logical drive (didnt really know what i was doing). now under device manager it comes up with no problems but when i go into its properties it comes up with an error under volumes. disk managament no longer sees it and partition magic now crashes when i try and load it. i have tried uninstalling the drive then rebooting and its detected as new hardware but i cant access it, my computer doesnt see it. is there a tool i can use to rescue it? i have everything off it backed up so i dont care if i have to wipe the whole thing (what i was trying to do). i know this is my fault for messing about when i didnt really know what i was doing but any help would be appreciated!
Ghozer Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 temporarily unplug your working drive, and boot to windows XP cd, and at the first stage (just before entering setup), press R for recovery console (it will say this at the bottom) once your in there you can use DISKPART to repartition it, you can also use FIXMBR to fix the mbr, and FIXBOOT to fix any booting issues, type HELP to see what other commands there are also
Preacher Man Posted February 25, 2008 Author Posted February 25, 2008 that didnt work mate. the repair console could see the disk but it said it couldnt access it?
Ghozer Posted February 25, 2008 Posted February 25, 2008 Your next option maybe partition magic then....
esme Posted February 25, 2008 Posted February 25, 2008 you may have screwed up the partition table you could try wiping it with a copy of efdisk or some other partition table editor basically all 4 of the partition entries in the primary partition table need to be zero'd to make it a blank disk again then you can restart windows and create new partitions how you like efdisk is a dos utility and won't run under windows, it's bundled with mrbooter which is a shareware multi boot manager which is also dos based I used efdisk and mrbooter many years ago, try at your own risk, though if you are just wiping a disk you shouldn't have a problem got a link to it at http://www.masterbooter.com if you do try it, make damn sure you are working on the right disk, try disconnecting the primary hdd to make absolutely sure if you aren't certain
Preacher Man Posted February 25, 2008 Author Posted February 25, 2008 Your next option maybe partition magic then.... i mentioned that it my o/p. it did work but now crashes when i tried to load it.
Preacher Man Posted February 25, 2008 Author Posted February 25, 2008 i have a bootable version of a linux distro, will that work the same as efdisk? i forgot what its called but its got the desktops you can spin around and looks a bit like ox10
alchresearch Posted February 25, 2008 Posted February 25, 2008 Try downloading SEAGATE SEATOOLS, stick it on a floppy boot disk and try running a test on the drive.
esme Posted February 25, 2008 Posted February 25, 2008 i have a bootable version of a linux distro, will that work the same as efdisk? i forgot what its called but its got the desktops you can spin around and looks a bit like ox10 sounds like ubuntu with the beryl interface loaded it might be able to repartition the disk for you but efdisk is an actual editor, it displays whats there now and lets you change it failing that the seagate tools that alchresearch suggested may do the job
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