1 Topic by NTidd (edited by NTidd 2008-07-24 14:32:45)

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Topic: ***Solved*** Now unallocated

Hello all, this is the oddest thing.

I have a wd passport that I wanted to format in fat32.  I booted up the livecd and went ahead and formatted it.  Now upon rebooting my computer, it won't boot.  I've booted into a hard drive diagnostic tool and it shows what was my vista ntfs partition as "unallocated".  This is on an ibm thinkpad t61 tablet.  Anyone know how to recover from this?  When I try to boot I just have a cursor that sits there blinking.

Thanks much in advance!

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Re: ***Solved*** Now unallocated

I solved the issue using testdisk as I found in another thread.  Had no problem repairing it.

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Re: ***Solved*** Now unallocated

Perhaps you did something to the system disk by error.
In any case, testdisk is a good tool.

In some computers, a USB device attached to the computer can block the boot-up. Sometimes, unplugging all cables, waiting a few minutes and retrying solves the problem.

(topic moved to the live media section).

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***

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Re: ***Solved*** Now unallocated

Perhaps, I still haven't quite got it working, it's booting to the recovery install on a seperate partition.  My main partition is still acting up, the boot sector apparantly says the volume is ntfs, but the file system is fat32 (or sometimes it appears as unallocated.