1 Topic by DavidC

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Topic: Extended Partition missing

Hi,

Not sure if this is the right application for my problem. Brand new additional 1TB drive (windows XP)
NTFS formatted Kdrive=40GB (empty), Ldrive=the rest (about 20GB data was on there). Restarted and L drive disappeared in Explorer. Still shows the 40GB K drive. The file management utility in XP now shows a 1TB healthy drive with no partitions. Restarts, etc. no difference. Have since reinstalled OS on my C drive for other reasons - still no difference. Downloaded trial versions of recovery software and they see the extended partition and all files so all seems to be there. Before I purchase any software seeing if there are more elegant fixes. Can gparted "extend" the K drive so that the content of the disappeared L drive shows? Or other suggestions welcome. Thanks, couldn't find a similar problem in the forums.

David C.

2 Reply by class413

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Re: Extended Partition missing

You don't explain the exact conditions (did this happen just after any formatting or partitioning operation? by which tools? )

GParted works on partitions on good condition only. In this case, most probably something erased the partition table of the hard drive. You can try to restore the missing partitions using the free "testdisk" software. It comes on a live cd.

After restoring the partitions, you could use GParted Livecd to make changes on the partitioning scheme of the drive.

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