Try testdisk utility - I had very good experience with it to recover broken partition tables.<br><a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk">http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk</a><br><br>This tool is part of systemrescuecd and other recovery live distros.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Ubu Sumner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubusum@ymail.com">ubusum@ymail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top">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: <a href="http://www.icare-recovery.com/partition-recovery.html" target="_blank">http://www.icare-recovery.com/partition-recovery.html</a><br>
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