Partitioning & Data Recovery Problems

I have enormous computer problems. It all started a few days ago. When I
initially installed Vista I did so on a 20GB partition of my 300 Gig hard
drive. The rest of the drive was an extended partition with four logical
drives. Over time Vista grew and eventually the partition became too small
to house Vista. I used a partition manager tool to resize the partitions and
give Vista a 100GB partition. The problem is that when I did so the largest
partition on my Hard Drive, containing VITAL data, was ruined.

Before I did the repartitioning, I backed up the entire contents of my
computer onto a separate using the Vista Computer Backup utility. How that I
have the Hard drive partitioned correctly, I don't want to have Vista Backup
reformat and repartition the hard dive as it once was (with only 20 gig for
vista) and I know of no way to pick and choose data. Further, windows seems
to have saved it all into some sort of inaccessible archive. What should I
do? I need this data...

The only option I can think off is to buy a new hard drive - blank - and swap
them out. Recover onto the new hard drive, the work with the data and the
old hard drive to restructure the system.

How good is VISTA at recognizing and changing partitions in the Full Computer
Restore mode?

Kevin

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i wish i could help you..but like you i cant think of anything other then
another hard drive swap..maybe some one else can..help you..but i would allso
though,this out there..how much will vista grow in time..theres updates and
what ever comeing steady at us,,unless you turn off updates..i would like to
know this my self.but my hd is wide open..to it..

"tantris via WindowsKB.com" wrote:

> I have enormous computer problems. It all started a few days ago. When I
> initially installed Vista I did so on a 20GB partition of my 300 Gig hard
> drive. The rest of the drive was an extended partition with four logical
> drives. Over time Vista grew and eventually the partition became too small
> to house Vista. I used a partition manager tool to resize the partitions and
> give Vista a 100GB partition. The problem is that when I did so the largest
> partition on my Hard Drive, containing VITAL data, was ruined.
>
> Before I did the repartitioning, I backed up the entire contents of my
> computer onto a separate using the Vista Computer Backup utility. How that I
> have the Hard drive partitioned correctly, I don't want to have Vista Backup
> reformat and repartition the hard dive as it once was (with only 20 gig for
> vista) and I know of no way to pick and choose data. Further, windows seems
> to have saved it all into some sort of inaccessible archive. What should I
> do? I need this data...
>
> The only option I can think off is to buy a new hard drive - blank - and swap
> them out. Recover onto the new hard drive, the work with the data and the
> old hard drive to restructure the system.
>
> How good is VISTA at recognizing and changing partitions in the Full Computer
> Restore mode?
>
> Kevin
>
> --
> Message posted via http://www.windowskb.com
>
>

Hey "wheelman", you are just a waste of space!
If you can't help him, don't comment; and get off this site!

"wheelman" wrote:

> i wish i could help you..but like you i cant think of anything other then
> another hard drive swap..maybe some one else can..help you..but i would allso
> though,this out there..how much will vista grow in time..theres updates and
> what ever comeing steady at us,,unless you turn off updates..i would like to
> know this my self.but my hd is wide open..to it..
>
> "tantris via WindowsKB.com" wrote:
>
> > I have enormous computer problems. It all started a few days ago. When I
> > initially installed Vista I did so on a 20GB partition of my 300 Gig hard
> > drive. The rest of the drive was an extended partition with four logical
> > drives. Over time Vista grew and eventually the partition became too small
> > to house Vista. I used a partition manager tool to resize the partitions and
> > give Vista a 100GB partition. The problem is that when I did so the largest
> > partition on my Hard Drive, containing VITAL data, was ruined.
> >
> > Before I did the repartitioning, I backed up the entire contents of my
> > computer onto a separate using the Vista Computer Backup utility. How that I
> > have the Hard drive partitioned correctly, I don't want to have Vista Backup
> > reformat and repartition the hard dive as it once was (with only 20 gig for
> > vista) and I know of no way to pick and choose data. Further, windows seems
> > to have saved it all into some sort of inaccessible archive. What should I
> > do? I need this data...
> >
> > The only option I can think off is to buy a new hard drive - blank - and swap
> > them out. Recover onto the new hard drive, the work with the data and the
> > old hard drive to restructure the system.
> >
> > How good is VISTA at recognizing and changing partitions in the Full Computer
> > Restore mode?
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > --
> > Message posted via http://www.windowskb.com
> >
> >