Help, partition magic NO

[nocturnx]

Alright ill start from the beginning. I have 2 harddrives, harddrive 1 is my bootable with windows xp on it. harddrive 2 had 2 partitions on it (G: and H: ) partition G was very small with nothing on it and partition H was about 75 gigs and had everything on it, i mean everything, games, music, software install files, everything. So i wanted to put a second OS on partition G so i got partition magic and I was gonna make partition G larger, well while it was moving the partition around everything stopped and froze, I rebooted and now I have my larger empty partition G but its not recognizing partition H: AHHHH! I went it to partition magic and it just shows where partition H: was as a strange "3C (hex) PqRP" partition. So did I lose everything or is there a way to recover this strange partition?

[SamuraiWarrior]

Have you tried switching it around using windows partition tool? I have done this and it seem a lot easier. I'm willing to bet you lost everything, but not to sure. Keep your fingers up and hope for the best.

[pillainp]

This is what the Partition Magic Help file has to say about the PqRP partition that you have on your hard disk.

PqRP Partitions
If your computer fails during a PartitionMagic operation, you may see a partition that
displays as PqRP or PQFLEX in the partition list in the main screen. PartitionMagic flags
a partition with a PqRP file system and a PQFLEX label, so you know that the partition
has been modified. You should assume that a PqRP partition is not stable. Contact
PowerQuest technical support for help in recovering data from a PqRP partition.

[nocturnx]

I tried finding the powerquest website, but powerquest has since been bought by Symantec and every link on their website that leads to technical support is a dead link. You would think symantec would keep their technical support up to date.

[pillainp]

Hiya,
Here's a link to the Powerquest Support Page dealing with your particular problem. Visit it and see if it helps you:

http://www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id3851.cfm

NPP

[nocturnx]

Hey thanks for the link, I changed it back to NTFS file system using the partition table editor and then had to change it to a logical drive and then reassign a drive letter and rebooted windows. And everythings there where it should be, hopefully nothings corrupted. Thanks again pillainp!

[pillainp]

Hey you're welcome. Just glad it worked for you.

Have a great day.

[craigtaylor74]

Sorry to drag up the same old story but I am in a similar position ... in need of some help (and frantic about losing photos of my daughter I'd taken since my last back-up) .
I'm at the same stage, have seen all the documentation re. PTEDIT but when I try and run it I get a message about

"A\:PTEDIT.EXE an application has tried to access directly the hd which is not permitted ...this can cause the application to function incorrectly...choose close to finalize the application" .

It's in Spanish ( my brother-in-law's pc so I don't know exactly what that would be in English!