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From: "Julian Zottl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 1:30 AM
Subject: [H] Recovery of Hd w/o partition?
Hey all,
I have a client that just brought me a PC with a HD that appears to have
no partitions on it (It shows up unallocated in XP). This was definitely a
bootable > volume previously.
I have sucessfully used a feature of Acronis True Image that is designed to
find and let you tell it to recover deleted partitons. As you already know
any procedure is risky. I have often seen Partition Magic display partitions
that were working as BAD. I ignored this and backed up any valuable data and
continued to use the computer. If a partition is readable, back up the data.
Do not try to "fix" partitions that are shown as BAD by any software. As
always, this advice is for the less experienced. The rest of us learned by
trashing workable partitions trying to "improve, correct or fix" them.
Chuck
