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Topic: Vista lost partition

about cloning correct me if i'm wrong but i thought that you can only make clone to the existing partition...

i'm guessing the best way would be to use some data recovery tool, but i don't know any good one, so if you know anything to suggest please be my guest

i was in a hurry to write another post so maybe it wasn't very clear but idea is that there were 2 partitions after reinstallation i can use only one, threw disk management software i can see other partition, but it shows that this partition isn't NTFS or Fat or any, it sais that it is active and it's all... i didn't made any back up because somehow my mother managed to screw the old vista, so i came to easiest desission to reinstall os... unfortunatelly it is not so easy this time...

well first post is in another thread http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=431

i've just ran testdisk and it sais that bouth partitions ar bootable, so maybe this is the problem, any ideas how to make other one that i don't see to extended or smth?

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Re: Vista lost partition

lost hope, formated other disk, couse wasn't able to find any data recvery tool wich would work with vista... now downloading drivers... thanks for help...
by the way wanted to ask moderators or man who knows for sure, while experimenting with testdisk i was able to see file list in that lost partition and copied it all to ... dunno acctually where, for future or maybe for other who will come to such problem, can anyone say where those files went? thanks anyway good luck with livecd i loved it

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Re: Vista lost partition

"Testdisk" and "photorec" (recovery program that comes in the same testdisk livecd) work under Linux but can work on files in vista partitions too.
If the data were overwritten, then there is no chance to get them back, in practice.
The file list you mention is probably the master file table of the ntfs partition. The real file content is usually located in other places on the partition (unless the file size is quite small, up to 1-2kB, then all the entire file content is stored in that table).

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