lost hard disk volumes

[Ayman]

Hi everyone,

I have 20G Segate hard drive. I have partitioned it to 4 equal partitions of 5 G each.
With names c: d: e: f: I used it for a year with windows 98 with no problem then after installing a new program and rebooting I found that I lost e: and f: and now I only have c: and d:
I could not see it from windows or under dos!

The drive d: looks the same (it has same size as before but when I used scandisk with it I found some invalid directory entries).
I did defrag but this was a month before the problem and I am using FAT 32 also more than a year before the problem.

I used Norton 2002 virus scan and could not find any virus. I am looking for other scans to check with them too.
But what if I got a boot sector problem, is this recoverable? Can I get my data back?

thanks
Ayman

[Blakhart]

Have you tried any kind of disk utility?
Try fdisk from a windows boot disk and use the 4 option in fdisk as that will tell you the drive info as far as parts goes...
You just type fdisk after you get the A: prompt from the boot disk.
Good luck bro..
Recovery of data is way fun. I use fixit utilities for this as it really works but you have to do your part too.
I dont mess with recovery for myself, I just format or do a fdisk and get rid of the partitions and start fresh.
Dont give up...

[Rancher]

Well I doubt a boot record prob coz yer booting on drive C rite? A really fast, simply, way is find a friend (chore for me) & attach your hard drive to his cdrom ribbon cable setting the jumper the same as cdroms; example if the cdrom is master on primary 2 set hard drive same, attach power & ribbon, bootup into "HIS/HER" windows open MyComputer. Is your drive there with all those dang drive letters? Rite click each, select properties gives the volume/size. If the drives are not there make sure "Last drive" =z in deviceman (i think)