Thread: [SOLVED] Recovering lost partion!

While moving a partion on one of my drives my power had gone out during the process, now the drive does not display on my computer. HELP! What can i do to get the drive back!?!?!!?

When i try to access the drive windows asks if i would like to format it...

The drive still shows as the correct size, what can i do to get it back!?

At the time i was using 7.10 64bit live cd, the drive (180gb) was at the time partitioned roughly:
|unpart size|~125gb ntfs | 12gb ubuntu | 1.3gb swap | 8mb mb | 4.5gb unpart |

You can see why i was moving things around, i had gpart moving the ntfs, ubuntu, swap, and 8mb to the front of the drive so i could group the unpart space together. The last time i checked the progress of gpart, it was roughly 30gb into the first step of moving the ntfs partition (the power went out roughly 5-10 minutes later).
Windows currently shows it as:
|~118gb ntfs | 12gb ? | 12gb ? | 1.39 swap | 8mb | 4.5 unpart |

resolved, was able to recover all the files using Active File recovery and create a new partition with the same drive letter as the last one. Everything seems to be working great now...

Thank you everyone for your help, its seems ironic these moments only happen when those backup you have are old or non existent for newer files

Buy a extra hard drive dedicated to pics, porn, and documents.
Then more than likely it will not happen again.

Originally Posted by jason_jinx

Buy a extra hard drive dedicated to pics, porn, and documents.
Then more than likely it will not happen again.

I do have two terabytes on this computer right now, i typically back up these files quite often as they are the project files to all my work. However Recently i had to set a half a terabyte as virtual ram and the rest was being used up by uncompressed raw data files. So when my weekly backup schedule ran it errored out (not enough hd space) and i wafted it off, as i said these things have a funny way of happening at the worst times.