So, like, is my computer fux0red?

yeah, I think it's gone. but you could get some super-geek who can do data recovery on it, because I don't think it's actually physically erased.

PartitionMaster type programs only master the way it messes up your computer.

That being said...I dunno, try scanning for hardware changes in your device manager.

[Edited on Dec 07, 2004 by SupremePizzaMan]

well any time you change your partitions, anything inside them disappears. but you still have to reformat inside your new big partition, I think, before windows will recognise the drive or be able to use it. I'm guessing it never showed your linux drive before because it wasn't windows formatted, and now it can't see either one.

one thing you may want to try is shutting off your machine, unplugging the power cord, taking off the case, carefully removing the ribbon cable that is attaching said farked drive to your mb, and turning your machine back on. after it reboots, turn it off again and remove the power cord and case. re-attach the ribbon cable, then power back up. i had a similar situation in the past, and that helped me to fix it. what you also may need to do is go into device manager and run the check for new hardware scan like pizzaman suggested. it may just need to have the drivers reinstalled. if you want, email me through my contact info with your specific system specs (drive brands, drivers, O/S etc...) and i may be able to help better. good luck!

You can try the demos at www.r-tt.com, to see if they can find any of the lost files. The free version can't recover anything over a certain file size (64KB).

Demo download. Standard disclaimers apply, use at your own risk et cetera.

There is a 90% chance the data is still there, completely recoverable.

I have question: Were you combining two different partition types, or enlarging your one partition to engulf the free space on te disk?

that's weird. I think the ext2fs is your linux install, which means that your F drive got glommed onto your C drive. if that's the case, it's getting harder to recover your files like every second that your computer is on!

The Ext2FS partition, if you hadn't guessed, is a Linux partition. That it is 102MB is strange, to say the least. What OS are you running (on the Windows side)?

Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. Merging two partitions of different types is risky.

You should open up the partition program and see if they have any sort of disk repair, or if you can get the data off your disk.

I would recommend just trying to backup everything on that disk if you can get it up, and then giving it a total reformat to NTFS, or FAT32. I had a similar experience over the weekend with data loss, because of the bizarre habits these partition progrmams have. My PartitionMagic software was being a bitch about making extended partitions and things like that. I <3 backups.

It may be the swap partition left over, although I think the Swap partitions are their own filesystem type, not Ext2 or 3 or Reiser FS

By the way, the best thing about all this is how close we are coming to talking about fsck.

You can try Damn Small Linux, run from a USB key, in order to access your partitions and burn to disc.

And yes, things like this are a huge bitch. I remember the worst day of work I ever had was when I had to do a RAID array expansion (moving the RAID partition to another set of larger disks on another computer). I was at work until 5 the next morning....

if getting all your music back is your main priority, I'd recommend turning it off as soon as possible and getting it to a data recovery expert. your albums are probably being overwritten by the second.

The way im reading this, it seems like the F partition should be gone, and it should be merged into the main partition of the drive.

No, I think she meant that the recovery tool recognized two additional partitions, beyond the primary Win2K one.