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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:06 pm
Post subject: Partition Move/Resize Failed Midstream - Files in Limboland!

I'm running WinXP Pro with NTFS partitions. I used PartitionMagic v8 to move and resize a partition. The process got hosed in the middle, and left everything in a weird state. I can't access the partition via Windows Explorer or a DOS command window. But I *can* see stuff there with "Active File Recovery".

When I tried to actually recover some files, though, it didn't quite work right. The "recovery" succeeded, but the file contents and filenames didn't seem to match. For example, I had a lot of MP3 files on the partition. A file got recovered called, let's say, "xyz.mp3". But when I opened the file, I heard part of "abc.mp3".

So here's what I *think* happened...

PartitionMagic began moving the file data, so some stuff is physically located in a different spot. But when it locked up, some files had been moved but the file allocation tables, indicating where things lived on the disk, hadn't been updated with the new information.

It's sort of like ripping out some pages of a book, relocating them, renumbering the pages, but not updating the index with the new page numbers. All the content is there, but if you look it up via the index, you're going to land somewhere else.

So...my little question is, "Does this make sense as to what happened?" And my *big* question is, "Is there any way to recover from this?"

I've got about 20G of mostly MP3 files. I'm 99% sure the data is fine. I just need to figure out a way to sync up the files with their correct names.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

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