No access to D drive after recovery

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Zeitgeist · #1 Post by **Zeitgeist** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:03 am

Concerns A31P and T40:

I created two primary partitions C and D on these thinkpads, with D containing the data.

After recovery (F11 resp. access IBM) to the preloaded state I don' t get access to the D partition, also the drive letter is gone.

Under WinXP "administration" the second partition is present and the size of the two C,D partition did not change.

How can I get access to the date of the D partition?

Thanks.

ian · #2 Post by **ian** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:52 am

Am I not correct in thinking that the recovery process, in restoring the factory preload, effectively recreates the 'C' partition - ie; it wipes out everything already existing on the disk?
If this is so, I sincerely hope you made an external backup somewhere...

Zeitgeist · #3 Post by **Zeitgeist** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 5:20 am

" Am I not correct in thinking that the recovery process, in restoring the factory preload, effectively recreates the 'C' partition - ie; it wipes out everything already existing on the disk? "

YES, but only the C partition, the second partition is still there but without a drive letter and no possibility t o access the data.

"If this is so, I sincerely hope you made an external backup somewhere..."

Yes, I have a backup on DVD but I would like to know what happened and how to solve the problem in the future.

BTW: rapid restore 4.0 works fine, it does not touch the other D partition when you recover the system partition C.

RaysMD · #4 Post by **RaysMD** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 5:32 am

when I was playing around with my HD. The same thing happened. The partition is still there untouched. The the partition table is messed up. Try a fdisk /mbr and see what happens or you'll need other software to recover the partition table.

ian · #5 Post by **ian** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 5:34 am

Sadly I am only able to repeat what I've heard here as I haven't yet actually got my T42 in my hot sweaty hands !! It seems odd that the 'D' partition remains but is innaccesible - have you a copy of Partition Magic that you could load onto the system and use to rename the partition and recover the data?

Well done for the backup - it's the hardest part of my job convincing people to do this ...well, until they lose their data of course - suddenley it seems like quite a good idea after that !

Zeitgeist · #6 Post by **Zeitgeist** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 5:56 am

Thanks for the replies.

I have an idea: Could it be that the two PRIMARY partitions caused the problem and if I had one primary and one extended partition I would not have the problem?

I created two primary because the old rapid restore 3.0 could not handle extended partitions, the new one 4.0 allows extended partitions.

n3il · #7 Post by **n3il** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:38 am

I believe you are right on that thinking..... If the "data" partition is Primary then you can run into problems - on the other hand if it is Extended it should be accessible.

I did the same as you (with the same outcome!) on my T23 - haven't tried it on the R50p yet....

HTH

ian · #8 Post by **ian** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:17 am

Rightly or wrongly I always create partitions as 'primary' - what difference/use is an extended partition please?

Zeitgeist · #9 Post by **Zeitgeist** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:33 am

"Rightly or wrongly I always create partitions as 'primary' - what difference/use is an extended partition please?"

I asked my friend google:

http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ ... tBoot.html

May be it is the way the boot manager checks the partition table? Sorry, I have no idea about what I am talking...

Zeitgeist · #10 Post by **Zeitgeist** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 12:15 pm

...any idea? Would an extended partition solve the problem?

No access to D drive after recovery

No access to D drive after recovery

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