Help with Win XP Partition?

Question

My hard drive is 250Gb. I have it partitioned so that the main drive is (c:)140gb, second is (d:)100gb and backup drive is (e:)10gb
The first 2 are NTFS. The other is FAT32
The other day I noticed that my 100gb partition has just disappeared! My C drive still reads 140gb. I checked in Disk Management and it says 140gb.
What has happened! Can I recover this drive??
Please help. Thanks.

Thanks for the answer Doocoons but as I said in the question, I've checked Disk Manager already and the partition was an NTFS partition. Thanks anyway.

Answer 1

now it hard to say what had happen, may be partition was deleted due to the virus or yourself deleted it accidentally or it can be everything. anyway i'd suggest you to try recovery expert here this the link:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/partition-recovery.html

it can restore lost partitions.
if it won't help, i think that partition is lost, so if you need the staff which is stored on the partition try to recover files and folders using getDataBack for NTFS. then reforormat the whole partition.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/getbacknt.html

Answer 2

Go to the control panel and click the Administration Tools icon
Go to Computer Management section
Under Storage, go to Disk Management
You should be able to see all the partitions on your hard drive and how they are formatted
Hopefully the 100gb partition will be there and say it is FAT32
You should be able to click on the partition and reassign it to a letter (D)

As FAT32 often as problems with partitions that exceed 32gb in size, I would recommend that you back up the data and then convert the partition to NTFS. The only reason to keep it FAT32 is if you are accessing it from over a network from a WIndows 98 or 95 PC. (They can not read NTFS). Otherwise convert it. NTFS is more stable, uses less space to store files, and does not get as badly fragmented as FAT32.

Good luck...

Answer 3

You will need to download and install winXP sp2 upgrade, if you have not done already.

Answer 4

try to use partition magic siftware.