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Hi!

Yesterday I wanted to resize one of my PARTITIONS and give some of its precious gigabytes to a smaller one.
I opened up Partition Magic 8 and did what I do (I've done this before a couple of times),
but when it was working a couple of errors appeared and the operation ABORTED itself (before the restart).
Unfortunately I can't remember what those error messages said...
"Bah, nevermind" I thought, and shut down Partition Magic.

Later I realised my most important partition is missing (I couldn't find it anywhere via Windows)!
So I open Partition Magic again:
my partition (E) is still there, but it is marked as Extended.
An error check returns:

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Error 1608: File record marked used, File 110
On this site I thought I found the answer, but I can't run CHKDSK on an invisible partition.

I use Windows XP PROFESSIONAL, and the drive is S-ATA.

I hope that description was good enough! If not, please ask.
I also hope someone can help, as I have ALL my documents on that partition;
music, photos, videos, etc.


Thanks in advance,
Magnus Granås First keep in mind that all hard drives die eventually and there is no substitute for a backup on secure media - CD, DVD, etc.

Also, Partition Magic and similar programs can be amazing, but in case of a disaster like this you are frequently SOL.

If that is a legal copy, I would CONTACT the manufacturer immediately before that drive gets any more action to get this resolved.

PM has it's own tools to help as well as the Windows tools, which will probably not be available or terribly helpful.

Thanks.

A friend recommended me a data recovery tool, [email protected] UNDELETE,
and I managed to retrieve all my FILES again
The invisible partition was listed in that programme as Local Disk ( 1: )


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