<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I ran Partition Magic on a family member's single boot XP machine, changing an empty logical partition to an active-primary partition, and it didn't take. Lost the partition table.<br><br>I didn't back up their logical data NTFS partition externally, and that's what I'd like to try to recover. <br><br>Thanks for any pointers. Right now I'm expecting to reformat the drive and restore an older data archive, resulting in the loss of some recent data.<br><br>Bruce<br><br>I am aware of custom utilities, but can't justify the cost with the perceived value of the data lost. for example: http://www.icare-recovery.com/partition-recovery.html<br></td></tr></table><br>