Lost Drive D

I don't know what happened but after i installed partition magic 8 for my
windows vista and entered the program, partition magic asked me to fix a
couple of errors and i just pressed yes, and when it was done fixing them it
didn't enter to the program giving me this error "Partition's drive letter
cannot be identified", and as soon as i pressed ok, the windows suddenly
showed a blue error screen and restarted...for my surpirse partition D was
lost (i have 3 partitions) and now i only have partitions C and S...i did a
system restore but it didn't work for some reason:S...
so what shall i do???

Hello Raven,

At FIRST access the system with a BARTPE disk or equivalent and save all
your data.

And here you should also have a look:
http://www.symantec.com/norton/suppo...pvid=npmagic_8

Best regards

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> I don't know what happened but after i installed partition magic 8 for
> my
> windows vista and entered the program, partition magic asked me to fix
> a
> couple of errors and i just pressed yes, and when it was done fixing
> them it
> didn't enter to the program giving me this error "Partition's drive
> letter
> cannot be identified", and as soon as i pressed ok, the windows
> suddenly
> showed a blue error screen and restarted...for my surpirse partition D
> was
> lost (i have 3 partitions) and now i only have partitions C and S...i
> did a
> system restore but it didn't work for some reason:S...
> so what shall i do???

I didn't think that partition magic supported vista . But you may want to
get a copy of paragon partition manager. I think it has some utilities for
recovery. As well you can try Vista pattition manager under Control Panel
>Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management.



"Raven" <> wrote in message
news:861B220F-997B-4860-BD18-...
>I don't know what happened but after i installed partition magic 8 for my
> windows vista and entered the program, partition magic asked me to fix a
> couple of errors and i just pressed yes, and when it was done fixing them
> it
> didn't enter to the program giving me this error "Partition's drive letter
> cannot be identified", and as soon as i pressed ok, the windows suddenly
> showed a blue error screen and restarted...for my surpirse partition D was
> lost (i have 3 partitions) and now i only have partitions C and S...i did
> a
> system restore but it didn't work for some reason:S...
> so what shall i do???

Actually i did before you even told me to, i can see the 50GB that the
partition D was taking, but i can't see any D partiotion...i press right
click and then try to go to properties or anything but an error occurs that
says:" The operation failed to complete because the Disk management console
view is not up-to-date. Refresh. If the problem persist, then restart Disk
Management or the computer". even after i restart the problem persist!...
how can i get a copy of paragon partition manager????
thanx

"David" wrote:

> I didn't think that partition magic supported vista . But you may want to
> get a copy of paragon partition manager. I think it has some utilities for
> recovery. As well you can try Vista pattition manager under Control Panel
> >Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management.
>
>
>
> "Raven" <> wrote in message
> news:861B220F-997B-4860-BD18-...
> >I don't know what happened but after i installed partition magic 8 for my
> > windows vista and entered the program, partition magic asked me to fix a
> > couple of errors and i just pressed yes, and when it was done fixing them
> > it
> > didn't enter to the program giving me this error "Partition's drive letter
> > cannot be identified", and as soon as i pressed ok, the windows suddenly
> > showed a blue error screen and restarted...for my surpirse partition D was
> > lost (i have 3 partitions) and now i only have partitions C and S...i did
> > a
> > system restore but it didn't work for some reason:S...
> > so what shall i do???
>

what is a BARTPE disk????
and after i do access the system then what shall i do?!
"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

> Hello Raven,
>
> At FIRST access the system with a BARTPE disk or equivalent and save all
> your data.
>
> And here you should also have a look:
> http://www.symantec.com/norton/suppo...pvid=npmagic_8
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
> no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
> > I don't know what happened but after i installed partition magic 8 for
> > my
> > windows vista and entered the program, partition magic asked me to fix
> > a
> > couple of errors and i just pressed yes, and when it was done fixing
> > them it
> > didn't enter to the program giving me this error "Partition's drive
> > letter
> > cannot be identified", and as soon as i pressed ok, the windows
> > suddenly
> > showed a blue error screen and restarted...for my surpirse partition D
> > was
> > lost (i have 3 partitions) and now i only have partitions C and S...i
> > did a
> > system restore but it didn't work for some reason:S...
> > so what shall i do???
>
>
>

"David" <> wrote:

> I didn't think that partition magic supported vista

It does not, according to Norton's web site.

Acronis Disk Director does as do many other applications.

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ok now i know that partition magic doesn't work on vista and it was a huge
mistake that i used it...
so plz, i just want to restore my lost partition!

I have the exact same problem. My partition d: does not show up in "my
computer". I find it in disk management, but with no drive letter
assigned to it. When i right click it and try to click any of the
options, like "change drive letter and paths" i get the error "The
operation failed to complete because the Disk management console view
is not up-to-date. Refresh. If the problem persist, then restart Disk
Management or the computer" refresh or restart does not help. How can
i get my computer to recognize the partition again! please help.

I have installed partition magic too, and i got the same errors. I
first discoverd d: was gone after having two external disks, one with
two partitions, connected to the computer. I made one of the partitions
on the external disk an "active" partition. After doing this i opened
"my computer", an d: was gone. The other 4 partitions were still there.


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Raven <> wrote:

> ok now i know that partition magic doesn't work on vista and it
> was a huge mistake that i used it...
> so plz, i just want to restore my lost partition!

I wish I could offer some help but I can't, I'm sorry.

This won't help at all but the last time Partition Magic messed up my
hard drive I lost EVERYTHING! ALL my partitions, everything. I had to
reformat, re-partition and install Windows XP (it was a few years back)
from scratch and begin rebuilding, it took a very long time. I hope
you have sufficient backups to ease the task, I didn't. I had enough
backup to restore most but some of is gone forever.

I got a removable hard drive and imaging software, once is enough!



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Hi friends

I have found it

You can use Test Disk software(search on Google) for fix it
If you have any questions, you can send mail to m
() . I am very happy because I have just fixed m
hard drive

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