Someone please must help me, im on the verge of tears, I have two harddrives in my cpu, the second was split up as 2 partitons the day i got it. anyway i just got partition magic 8, and i joined two partitions together the first was approx 15 gig (D) and the second approx 4 gig (F) i join them up, follow the instructions and it puts the 15 gig partiton(D) as a folder called 'new' in (F). Now when i try to open this folder it says to me F:/new is not acccessible access is denied what is going on! Someone has to help me because i think i have just lost 15 gb worth of downloads that was on that harddrive. all i can tell you is that both were ntfs and the output one is still ntfs when i right click the hard disk in my computer and click properties it tells me that there is still 11.7 gb in the harddrive(this is how much there was in it before i merged the 2 partitions) but when i click on properties for the folder 'new' it says that the size of the folder is 0 bytes so where has that 11.7gb gone??????????? and there is no other file or folder in the disk, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Someone HAS to help me iv just lost everythingg i evr downloaded please help me thank you you are very nice people.
From what i can gather u may not have turned the partion to an active partion try using Fdisk to fix the problem or c if partion magic has a active option. But that sounds like the issue.
I would be too! A lesson to learn here first, would be to backup your data before using any partitioning software. Especially Partition Magic 8. Few things you can try. Call Symantec. They might be able to help you get your drive back to it's previous state. If not, you might try Googling "partition recovery software". However, Linux is another way. By downloading and creating a Linux Live CD, you can run the system completely from the CD drive. Then, after the system has been started, try accessing the new partition. If successful, backup all that data to a working partition. http://www.knoppix.org/
Just to add... Mepis and Linspire are also 2 great directly bootable linux distros that make file recovery very safe and easy. There's another one too, but I can't remember it, it's got a funny name. In the future, and for what it's worth, you don't see the speed gain you USED to see by partitioning. It's not even necessary now for multi-boot systems. Microsoft finally got smart and made XP prefer NTFS, and things have been much better ever since.
tis no biggy iv fixed the problem, it was something to do with the permissions, this is what i did: right clicked it, properties, sharing and i allowed it to be accessed by the network, and now iv got all of my files back, thanx anyway guys
