Check out 'testdisk', Al: http://www.cgsecurity.org/ testdisk partition table recovery TestDisk checks the partition and boot sectors of your disks. It is very useful in recovering lost partitions. It works with : - FAT12 - FAT16 - FAT32 - NTFS (Windows NT/W2K/XP) - EXT2FS/EXT3FS (Linux) - Linux Swap (1 & 2) - IBM Multiboot - BeFS (BeOS) - UFS (BSD) - ReiserFS (1 & 2) - JFS TestDisk runs under: - Dos, Win9x - Windows (NT 4/2000/XP/2003) - Linux - FreeBSD TestDisk is under GNU General Public License. HTH, Tomas Santos [log in to unmask] ----------------------- On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:25:15 -0500, Richard Glazier wrote: > Subject: Re: Lost Partitions on Two HDD's > > Sorry for the delay in answering... > > Acronis has a program called RecoveryExpert. > Since you seem to have only UN-allocated space now(?), > it "should" go in and re-construct what you "got rid > of"... > > You might need to know the (approx.) sizes and > locations of > the valid partitions that you want to recover - since > it sometimes > gives "multiple choices" of former partitions and these > (by > definition) will almost always overlap, which is NOT > allowed > (of course...) > > The bad news is, I do not believe the program is > available > separately anymore. It was so small, they used to give > it away > free as a perk to buy other programs, but eventually > rolled it > into a suite... > > I have used Norton Utilities to recover partitions too, > (a VERY > long time ago). Not sure they still support that part > of their > suite... > > Rick Glazier > > From: "Al Thompson" <[log in to unmask]> > > I've lost all 11 partitions on two hard drives at the > same time, > > while working only on HDD 2. > clipped > > ( I had had each drive as master on IDE 1 & 2, with > the > >CD-ROM and dvd as slaves, but ATA 33 was the limit - > hence > > both HDD's on IDE 1 )******* The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with the OpenOffice CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml