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max_weinland

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Since: Jul 30, 2005
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:56 am
Post subject: How I accidentally made XP delete my harddisks!
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Hello!

I want to warn you about some behaviour of Norton Ghost and XP:

I have got several harddisks for backups that I insert into my computer
using a IDE rack whenever I need them.
When I look into Disk Management the absent backup harddisks are shown
with a red cross.

Now I needed to use Norton Ghost (Version 9.0.2.3981). It has a bug:
If you have entries with a red cross for absent harddisks in Disk
Management Nortion Ghost says:
Cannot initialize the Storage Management Engine.

The drives were absent so I thought I could delete the entries and XP
will make new entries when I would insert them again.

But when I inserted the drives later XP deleted the partions!!

Any comments?

Max Weinland

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Since: Dec 11, 2004
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 5:55 pm
Post subject: Re: How I accidentally made XP delete my harddisks! [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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<max_weinland.TakeThisOut@yahoo.de> wrote in message
news:1122713801.845298.95480@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello!
>
> I want to warn you about some behaviour of Norton Ghost and XP:
>
> I have got several harddisks for backups that I insert into my computer
> using a IDE rack whenever I need them.
> When I look into Disk Management the absent backup harddisks are shown
> with a red cross.
>
> Now I needed to use Norton Ghost (Version 9.0.2.3981). It has a bug:
> If you have entries with a red cross for absent harddisks in Disk
> Management Nortion Ghost says:
> Cannot initialize the Storage Management Engine.
>
> The drives were absent so I thought I could delete the entries and XP
> will make new entries when I would insert them again.
>
> But when I inserted the drives later XP deleted the partions!!
>
> Any comments?

Gully!

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CJT

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Since: Nov 10, 2003
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:55 pm
Post subject: Re: How I accidentally made XP delete my harddisks! [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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max_weinland DeleteThis @yahoo.de wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I want to warn you about some behaviour of Norton Ghost and XP:
>
> I have got several harddisks for backups that I insert into my computer
> using a IDE rack whenever I need them.
> When I look into Disk Management the absent backup harddisks are shown
> with a red cross.
>
> Now I needed to use Norton Ghost (Version 9.0.2.3981). It has a bug:
> If you have entries with a red cross for absent harddisks in Disk
> Management Nortion Ghost says:
> Cannot initialize the Storage Management Engine.
>
> The drives were absent so I thought I could delete the entries and XP
> will make new entries when I would insert them again.
>
> But when I inserted the drives later XP deleted the partions!!
>
> Any comments?
>
> Max Weinland
>

Sounds like a feature.

--
The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to
minimize spam. Our true address is of the form che... DeleteThis @prodigy.net.
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dg

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:55 pm
Post subject: Re: How I accidentally made XP delete my harddisks! [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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I don't know about that exact situation but I have used a program called
"Active @ Recovery" to recover a partition I made an "oops" with. It worked
great and I recovered everything. Before I used that program I used "Easy
Recovery" but only recovered files with shortened file names, I mean I
recovered everything I wanted but some stuff had the names shortened-which
was WAY better than nothing.

Your data is likely there, but it just isn't showing up.

Good luck,
--Dan

<max_weinland.TakeThisOut@yahoo.de> wrote in message
news:1122713801.845298.95480@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello!
>
> I want to warn you about some behaviour of Norton Ghost and XP:
>
> I have got several harddisks for backups that I insert into my computer
> using a IDE rack whenever I need them.
> When I look into Disk Management the absent backup harddisks are shown
> with a red cross.
>
> Now I needed to use Norton Ghost (Version 9.0.2.3981). It has a bug:
> If you have entries with a red cross for absent harddisks in Disk
> Management Nortion Ghost says:
> Cannot initialize the Storage Management Engine.
>
> The drives were absent so I thought I could delete the entries and XP
> will make new entries when I would insert them again.
>
> But when I inserted the drives later XP deleted the partions!!
>
> Any comments?
>
> Max Weinland
>
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fj

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Since: Apr 22, 2005
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:55 pm
Post subject: Re: How I accidentally made XP delete my harddisks! [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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"dg" <dan_gus.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:mBTGe.2952$kk6.1044@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
>I don't know about that exact situation but I have used a program called
>"Active @ Recovery" to recover a partition I made an "oops" with. It
>worked great and I recovered everything. Before I used that program I used
>"Easy Recovery" but only recovered files with shortened file names, I mean
>I recovered everything I wanted but some stuff had the names
>shortened-which was WAY better than nothing.
>
> Your data is likely there, but it just isn't showing up.

Partition Magic from Symantec will also recover deleted partitions. There's
also several other utilities that will recover deleted partitions. You can
find them with a google search.

As mentioned, as long as you haven't written anything to the hard drive
since the partition was deleted, everything on the partition should simply
reappear once you've 'undeleted' the partition.
>
> Good luck,
> --Dan
>
> <max_weinland.DeleteThis@yahoo.de> wrote in message
> news:1122713801.845298.95480@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Hello!
>>
>> I want to warn you about some behaviour of Norton Ghost and XP:
>>
>> I have got several harddisks for backups that I insert into my computer
>> using a IDE rack whenever I need them.
>> When I look into Disk Management the absent backup harddisks are shown
>> with a red cross.
>>
>> Now I needed to use Norton Ghost (Version 9.0.2.3981). It has a bug:
>> If you have entries with a red cross for absent harddisks in Disk
>> Management Nortion Ghost says:
>> Cannot initialize the Storage Management Engine.
>>
>> The drives were absent so I thought I could delete the entries and XP
>> will make new entries when I would insert them again.
>>
>> But when I inserted the drives later XP deleted the partions!!
>>
>> Any comments?
>>
>> Max Weinland
>>
>
>
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lukeles




Joined: Aug 06, 2005
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:50 am
Post subject: Re: How I accidentally made XP delete my harddisks! [Login to view extended thread Info.]
I suggest you use Partition Table Doctor to resolve your
problem.The software provides very useful functions:
Backup partition table, Restore partition table, Rebuild
partition table, undelete partition, Fix boot sector,
rebuild mbr,etc.

First thing I recommend you download the demo version of
Partition Table Doctor.( http://www.ptdd.com/download.htm )

Run the program and select "Rebuild Partition Table",
then choose "Interactive" mode.

See more: http://www.ptdd.com/recoverylostpartition.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/recoverdeletedpartition.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/partition-recovery.htm
http://www.ptdd.com
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