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blueren   06-19-2009 at 05:33:16 PM

Hi! This is my first post here.

I have a seagate ST3802110a 80gb with 3 partitions. Recently 2 of the partitions went missing(just like that when I restarted). I am only able to see my os partition. I found some time to reinstall my os (it badly had to be replaced anyway) but I still am able to see only my C drive. I also had it checked in another computer and i am still able to see only 1 drive of 45 gb. I checked out the drive config (my computer > manage) and this particular hard disk is not showing up at all! But I am able to see it under device manager. I had a few important stuff on the other partitions. Is there any way to fix this? This is pretty urgent. Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

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ramin93   06-19-2009 at 07:43:03 PM
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I had once a broken hard drive, and alot files were on it. The OS wouldnt start up because of the bad sectors. But I putted a pirated vista dvd in pc, and at the start of the installation you can open notepad with the vista dvd. so i was able to see all my files when i klicked on ''file > open'' in notepad. so with 2 notepad at once open, i could drag all my files to my usb and then replace the hard drive.
but you seem not to see the other partitions, did you delete the current parition?

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blueren   06-19-2009 at 10:29:02 PM
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Finally after a couple of restarts, the hdd was detected in disk management but was listed "offline". I turned it online only to find the remaining space to be as a raw partition. I'm now using a s/w to recover data from the lost partitions. Sure is a messy job!

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