System Hangs and Data Loss

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ivanjay Wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have several hard drives and just bought a new 300 gig unit. I
> installed
> this and split it into two partitions (one to become my windows install
> and
> the other to become data storage). I copied everything to the data
> storage
> drive as a backup so I could format my old partitions and start fresh.
>
> I re-installed windows which was unable to see my entire partitions (I
> am
> guessing cause drives were too large not sure what the limit is). I
> installed Windows on my new SATA drive and the performance is not what
> I
> expected. It hangs whenever accessing my hard drives so something is
> clearly
> wrong (displaying my computer or an individual drive, or exploring a
> drive
> through a menu, etc.)
>
> Furthermore, I cannot access any of the data I backed up (kicking
> myself for
> not burnign it but it would have been too large).
>
> Any ideas on how to get this back and how to improve performance? The
> whole
> system seems way too slow now.
>
> I even bought GetDataBack to try to recover my lost files but no luck
> thus
> far.
>
> Any help is sooooo appreciated!

Hi Ivan.

With what file system did u partition the drive? (NTFS/FAT32). ofcourse
fat32 has a volume size limitation of 32 GBs but u can exceed by using
softwares such as Partition Magic and others. please mention the file
system so that i might be able to help u.


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asim662

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asim662 Wrote:
> Hi Ivan.
>
> With what file system did u partition the drive? (NTFS/FAT32). ofcourse
> fat32 has a volume size limitation of 32 GBs but u can exceed by using
> softwares such as Partition Magic and others. please mention the file
> system so that i might be able to help u.

Oops. i am sorry for the mistake. so here it goes

with what file system did u format the partitions?

sorry again.


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asim662

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I used NTFS. I originally used Partition Magic (before installing the new
drive) to attempt to merge two partitions. That failed and when I installed
the new OS it all got messed up! Thanks!

"asim662" wrote:

>
> asim662 Wrote:
> > Hi Ivan.
> >
> > With what file system did u partition the drive? (NTFS/FAT32). ofcourse
> > fat32 has a volume size limitation of 32 GBs but u can exceed by using
> > softwares such as Partition Magic and others. please mention the file
> > system so that i might be able to help u.
>
> Oops. i am sorry for the mistake. so here it goes
>
> with what file system did u format the partitions?
>
> sorry again.
>
>
> --
> asim662
>

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ivanjay Wrote:
> I used NTFS. I originally used Partition Magic (before installing the
> new
> drive) to attempt to merge two partitions. That failed and when I
> installed
> the new OS it all got messed up! Thanks!
>
> "asim662" wrote:
> -
>
> asim662 Wrote:-
> Hi Ivan.
>
> With what file system did u partition the drive? (NTFS/FAT32).
> ofcourse
> fat32 has a volume size limitation of 32 GBs but u can exceed by
> using
> softwares such as Partition Magic and others. please mention the
> file
> system so that i might be able to help u.-
>
> Oops. i am sorry for the mistake. so here it goes
>
> with what file system did u format the partitions?
>
> sorry again.
>
>
> --
> asim662
> -

Hi.

Thanx for the info. It's good that u used NTFS. NTFS has a volume size
limitation of 16 TB. since ur partition merger operation was
unsuccessful, it might have corrupted the MBR, so try using a data
recovery software like ontrack (www.ontrack.com) and take the corrupted
partition backup on a working hard drive partition (preferably on a
second hard disk). Hope this helps. do let me know.


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asim662

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Hi,

To recover data, Active@ Undelete can be used. It has the best recover
algorithm i've ever met, so imho this is number One restore tool.
Really.
http://www.active-undelete.com/