Deleted Partition

[Rapier]

I deleted my "D" partition that I had on my 13 gig HD. Is there a way or software to get that 2.7 GIG back for my "C" partition/drive? I don't want to pay for software one task.

Mike

[EzyStvy]

Search for Ranish. It's a free MANUAL partition resizer.

[glc]

If it's NTFS, Ranish will not do the job.

Can RPM work with NTFS?
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RPM can only create/boot an NTFS partition. No formatting/resizing
can be done through RPM.

[rjfvillarosa]

Not sure if this can help you, there is a downloadable tool on this site that fits on a floppy that can recover partitions.

http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml

[Rapier]

Originally Posted by rjfvillarosa Not sure if this can help you, there is a downloadable tool on this site that fits on a floppy that can recover partitions. http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml

Partition Recovery Boot Disk

1.2mg
Based on the Boot Disk Essentials disk above. Contents: Generic IDE CDROM driver, mouse driver, basic file manipulation tools, fdisk, format and testdisk.exe - a partition undelete tool which handles Windows and Linux partitions allowing them to be restored when lost or accidentally deleted.


Thanks
I don't think this will do it because I want to resize C to its original 13 GIG size using the space from the deleted D partition.

Mike

[Rapier]

Originally Posted by EzyStvy Search for Ranish. It's a free MANUAL partition resizer.

I saw that site. It seems tricky because, if I read it correctly, you have to do it from a dos partition.


I am going to investigate the Ranish site further.

Thanks

Mike

[rjfvillarosa]

Partition magic has a utility called merge that will merge partitions together. I have used it a few times and it is really easy to use.

[Rapier]

Originally Posted by rjfvillarosa Partition magic has a utility called merge that will merge partitions together. I have used it a few times and it is really easy to use.

You're right. I used the Trial Version and it was a snap. Only it didn't actually do anything. We used to call that a No-OP routine. If we had to recreate an input tape but didn't need the rest of the program's output.

$60 is kinda steep to recover less than 3 gigabytes.



Thanks for your help,

Mike

[Rapier]

Originally Posted by EzyStvy Search for Ranish. It's a free MANUAL partition resizer.

I downloaded and extracted Ranish Partition Manager v2.44 Beta.

I read readme240 and readme244.

The author said you needed to be experience. In 240 I searched for resize and it seemed to be talking about shortening a partition to free space for another partition. Which is the opposite of my task to recover the original C partition to the full 13GIG disk size.

Readme244 was in two parts, the first written by M. Ranish and the second by a Mathu. Although XP was noted as acceptable Muthu ended his section of 244 with



In case you want to know,
I used the following OSes for testing on a 20GB HDD:

Windows 98 (command prompt)
FreeBSD 4.4
RedHat Linux 7.1

Availability: http://www.ranish.com/part/

I guess you are tired reading upto this point. So am I writing till
this point :-).

Regards,
Muthu

I wasn't gonna use it now I really won't use it.

[glc]

As I said, Ranish cannot resize a NTFS partition anyway.

[Rapier]

Originally Posted by glc As I said, Ranish cannot resize a NTFS partition anyway.

My 13gig drive came with the PC when I bought it new and is FAT32.