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O.P. Lost a partition in Vista
Hello boys n girls,

I have tried to make another partition in Vista using Partition Magic 8. Not a good idea apparently, because after reboot the partition I wanted to have was not made, and I 'lost' another important partition.

When going to Computer -> Manage I can see the partition (see screenshot) but it has no driveletter. The other partition is the one with Vista on it which I can use and boot normally.

I have run checkdisk which didn't found any errors.
I have booted my computer with Parted Magic which states that my whole harddrive is unallocated (while I boot my Vista fine from it, the partition with Vista is available in this computer as normal)

Luckily I have a second harddrive with XP on it. When in XP, the lost partition in Vista does appear there, and I can use and brows it normally. So I made a backup from the drive there, and went back to Vista.

Again in Vista's Disk Management I tried to format the partition, but he doesn't let me to... the drive's stuck in Vista.

How can I get it back?

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04-08-2009 10:06 AM
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Lost a partition in Vista - by Exca on 04-08-2009 at 10:06 AM
RE: Lost a partition in Vista - by Jarrod on 04-08-2009 at 10:51 AM
RE: Lost a partition in Vista - by Exca on 04-08-2009 at 01:43 PM
RE: Lost a partition in Vista - by andrey on 04-08-2009 at 01:57 PM
RE: Lost a partition in Vista - by Exca on 04-08-2009 at 03:56 PM


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