Partition Lost after changing Drive Letter.

[ECE0105]

Hi,

I had tried changing the Drive letter of a Partition on my second HDD and it shows the status "Unallocated" and I get an error when trying to re-create the partition (Pls. check the Attachment).

Please help in getting the data back from the partition, since I am unable to even format it to a new one.

[dare_devil]

plz be brief about what you did and how.
i changed my drive laters for many times of my 2 hard disks, i never got any problem. may you do some mistake

[ECE0105]

Well, Like I said, I have 2 HDDs, and to diff. b/w the two, I made Partitions C,D,E and F from HDD1 and then G as the Optical Drive and then H & I for HDD2.

It was actually G & H for HDD2 and then I as the DVDRW.
So, I swapped it. The G Drive is actually working fine (Which was H earlier) and no issues with that. But when I changed I to H, it just did not show the status as a NTFS Partition and showed the status as an empty space.
Tried rebooting the PC and tried closing and opening Disk mgmt multiple times to no avail.
Since, I am not able to format the partition, I am unable to recover data as well...

[Orange Juice]

Khojne se to bhagwan bhi milta hai............Partition kya cheez hai........

[pushkaraj]

if u can, do a system restore. That should solve the problem. Restore ur system to a point before this problem happened.

[dare_devil]

Originally Posted by ECE0105

Well, Like I said, I have 2 HDDs, and to diff. b/w the two, I made Partitions C,D,E and F from HDD1 and then G as the Optical Drive and then H & I for HDD2.

It was actually G & H for HDD2 and then I as the DVDRW.
So, I swapped it. The G Drive is actually working fine (Which was H earlier) and no issues with that. But when I changed I to H, it just did not show the status as a NTFS Partition and showed the status as an empty space.
Tried rebooting the PC and tried closing and opening Disk mgmt multiple times to no avail.
Since, I am not able to format the partition, I am unable to recover data as well...

if you windows xp bootable cd then boot from it, afetr all steps, when it asks for instalation drive, select your drive, press l for deleting partition, then create partition of unpartitioned space either here or from disk mgmt
i think it may solve your problem