Please Help Data Lost!!!

[theHAWK]

I hope some can help me, I used Partition Manager 8.5 boot cd to resize my partition on my laptop harddrive. I wanted Partition Manager to resize my 30GB harddrive to 20Gb and create a new 10 Gb partition, which it did, but know it says that my 20Gb partition is unformatted and that I have a 9.9Gb partition which is free.

the problem is I had data on the 30Gb partition that I cannot access now cause its 20Gb now and says its unformatted, so my data is lost. I thought that partition manager would leave my data intact while resizing my partition?

what do i do know to undo this disaster or atleast get my data back, since i do not see any undo function and i tried to search for deleted partitions and it came up with nothing.

Please Please help me.:eek:

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Hello Hawk,

Maybe the delete/undelete option can fix your probelm.
that only works if the new createt free space is not formatted. (if i´m right this is your situation)
1. Boot from recovery cd, delete your unformatted partition.
2. mark the free space partition and choose undelete in the rigth menue.

Now a wizzard should start, where it looks for deleted partitions. There are also some configs you can make ( i don´t now all ).
if it find something go on and look at the effect. if the Partition is shown as one ( as before) rightclick on it and choose browse partition. now you can look if all data are shown.

Try to boot from HDD, if it doesn´t work boot the recovery CD and do a update MBR.

hope this could help you
Greetings
G.Threepwood