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TechExAdvisor
23rd December 2008, 08:51
Dell Poweredge 1430 with 2 160 Gb SATA drives in a hardware RAID 1 as one physical drive. OS is Win 2003 SBS SP2, 3 Partitions, 30 Mb EISA, 31 Gb System (C:), 119 Gb Data (D:) on the Physial drive. Due to a undetermined issue the third partition shows as Unallocated in Disk Manager. Running the ZAR 8.3 only the recognized partitions display. It is critical that I recover the files on the D: partition. I manually defined the start for the missing partition as 31000 Mb and the size as 119000 Mb. ZAR is not identifying any files. Please Help!

Alexey V. Gubin
24th December 2008, 06:18
The filesystem was NTFS?
Any specific error message?
If ZAR progresses enough as to determine the filesystem type, the type is reported as NTFS, correct?
The volume map during scan is not fully white?