Rawan AbuSalman
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Hi...
I was fixing the partitions on my 500 GB hardrive...since vista's disk management tool pretty much sucks, it only let me create 3 partitions (primary)...i already had 2 logical drives but i needed a 3rd...n there was no way for doing it...
i tried parition magic...but only works on XP...so i created a 20 GB primary partition n installed XP...still partition magic didnt work...I searched around and realized that if a windows vista partition is present, partitoin magic wont open...
so i deleted the partition to which vista is installed...still didnt work...
so cut it short, i decided to go without creating that extra partition...
but somehow along the process, an 80 gb partition disappeared!!! i thought if i install vista it would 're-appear'...
i did that...to no avail!
if i go to disk management, theres an 80 gb towards teh end of the timeline that says 'free space' (in lime color)
HOW did this happen!?? im almost 100% sure i did NOT delete that partition my self.... (and even if I did, it would give 'unallocated space' not 'free space'
IS THERE ANY HOPE my dad can be recovered!?? it was 80 gb worth of data!!
thanks a lot...
any help much appreciated...
I was fixing the partitions on my 500 GB hardrive...since vista's disk management tool pretty much sucks, it only let me create 3 partitions (primary)...i already had 2 logical drives but i needed a 3rd...n there was no way for doing it...
i tried parition magic...but only works on XP...so i created a 20 GB primary partition n installed XP...still partition magic didnt work...I searched around and realized that if a windows vista partition is present, partitoin magic wont open...
so i deleted the partition to which vista is installed...still didnt work...
so cut it short, i decided to go without creating that extra partition...
but somehow along the process, an 80 gb partition disappeared!!! i thought if i install vista it would 're-appear'...
i did that...to no avail!
if i go to disk management, theres an 80 gb towards teh end of the timeline that says 'free space' (in lime color)
HOW did this happen!?? im almost 100% sure i did NOT delete that partition my self.... (and even if I did, it would give 'unallocated space' not 'free space'
IS THERE ANY HOPE my dad can be recovered!?? it was 80 gb worth of data!!
thanks a lot...
any help much appreciated...