Secondary HDD problems - Lost Partition?

quincy · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 215

Hello! I have two hard drives in my computer case and I have a problem with secondary hard drive (slave hard drive). I cannot see whole partition on it (and it has two partitions). I have never had this problem before and I am not too familiar with hard drives, so, I am waiting your help. Thank you in advance!

holt · Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 193

Hello! It looks like your partition became corrupted. You will need to use some third party tool to fix this problem. I suggest you Partition Magic. With this software you will be able to repair your partition. But, partition corruption can be caused because of bad hard drive too, so, you will maybe need to replace whole hard drive.

R_Taylor · Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1

I wouldn't suggest you to use Partition Magic, cause it can do more harm than good - after Symantec purchase of the company it wasn't supported, and wont be. And when using it with Vista-created NTFS partitions it can even lead to data-loss.

I think you need to try something like Acronis Disk Director. You can read about it here: http://recovery-review.com/other-useful-tools/acronis-disk-director-suite-10-0.html

Maybe it can restore your partition.

But, if it won't help, there is only "bruteforce" solution left, I think - try to recover the files with some file recovery app. Here, maybe something like DiskInternals Partition Recovery helps: http://recovery-review.com/unformat-tools/diskinternals-partition-recovery-1-9.html

Hope, this will be helpful.

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