Help! Disk is invalid after trying to duel-boot

yellowbus · #1 14th Aug 2007, 07:35 PM

Hi, i was trying to make a duel-boot and was playing around with Paragon Partition Manager- labeling volumes, creating partitions, making rooms, and etc.. Not sure exactly why this happened, but an error occurred after a check up with PC Doctor and a windows recovery disk. i didn't format or create a partition with the recovery disk though.
Anyways, now my D drive is invalid- i use my D drive for storage.
On the Paragon partition manager, It says the geometry is incorrect and i noticed the size decreased? the disk used to be 199 GB, but now its 127.9 GB and there's 104GB of free space, whereas there was 37 GB of free space before. I cannot acces the D drive at all. Any solutions? i'd be happy to supply more information if needed.

**Dave Hybrid** · #2 15th Aug 2007, 02:02 AM

I'd hazard a guess that the partition is messed up and the data is as good as lost.

**Dave Hybrid** · #3 15th Aug 2007, 02:03 AM

You could also try a Google for data recovery software.

yellowbus · #4 15th Aug 2007, 02:11 PM

thanks for the advice, i used 'Power Data Recovery' and got everything in storage back! also included was everything i had ever deleted in my computer, which was also useful

**Dave Hybrid** · #5 15th Aug 2007, 02:30 PM

Glad to hear it. Thanks for letting us know.

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