I messed up my partitions with PQPartition Magic!

[mumbaindude]

Okay, so here's the problem...

In wanting to clean up a no longer needed Win98 partition, I used Partition magic to make my primary partition a logical one, and it went and made a small 8MB primary partition that is hidden - all was okay, but too messy for me, so I tried to undo it by merging the two partitions, the old primary that had become a logical partition with the small and new primary partition...

There was some sort of glitch in the operation while PQPMagic was moving some files and I got the error 'blah blah blah, cyclic redundancy check'... sorry I don't remember the EXACT phrasing...

So, now I cannot accces some important stuff on the formerly primary partition of my second hard disk... what can I do to fix this???

I have used Partition Magic 7 to provide this following info about my hard disks... It is what I think is called the partition table, and I sort of feel that if I fix this table correctly I will be able to access that partition again, but after all my goofing up, I'm scared out of my wits!

Am I right? Can it be done? Is there some software that will do it for me SAFELY? (Can't spend a cent though, don't have the earnings for that sort of thing)...

Please help....

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PowerQuest PartitionInfo 7.0 -- Windows NT/2000 Version

General System Information:
Total Physical Memory (bytes): 536,133,632
Used Physical Memory: (bytes): 171,159,552
Maximum Page File Size: (bytes): 1,310,392,320
Current Page File Size: (bytes): 124,858,368



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Partition Information for Disk 2: 38,162.2 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect TotalSects UsedSects FreeSects
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FAT12 Pri 7.8 0 2 63 16,002 16,002 0
PqRP Pri 19,077.2 0 0 16,128 39,070,017 39,070,017 0
ExtendedX Pri 19,077.2 0 1 39,086,145 39,070,080 39,070,080 0
EPBR Log 19,077.2 None -- 39,086,145 39,070,080 39,070,080 0
J:MP3'S FAT32 Log 19,077.2 39,086,145 0 39,086,208 39,070,017 39,070,017 0

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In Windows, I see the missing partition and basically Disk 2 is supposed to have
1 - 8MB Primary FAT partition that is healthy and seen...
2 - 18.63GB Primary FAT32 partition (called healthy but unknown by WinXP Disk Management) and
3 - 18.63 Logical FAT32 partition that is healthy and seen...

How am I supposed to get my 2nd partition back???

[jackassuk56]

i dont realy know about these things but have you tried putting the harddrive into another machine and trying that way

[mumbaindude]

I formatted the damn thing & kissed goodbye to the small amount of things that i wished i could have saved...

All's well that ends well; and at least my comp is working fine now...

Thanks anyways...



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