Flash drive partition

karson wong

Hi Guy,

Do any one know how to retrive the partition back?
I had accidentally deleted the partition when installed the Win XP Pro in the bule screen formatting page. At that time the flash drive was in the USB slot.

Thank you!

RussS

At a guess you could try using the XP Disk Management. I have seen people format them but never blow away the partition before.

seuss_ssues

Just do a google search. There are dozens of data recovery programs out there that will do everything from recreating partitions to scanning the whole HD and doing a RAW recover on whatever it can find.

seuss_ssues

Ohh yeah i forgot to add

Dont feel bad i did the exact same thing one day. I was installing Win 2003 over a HD that had previously been running Fedora. When it came time to partition and format i didnt even look over it i just deleted all the partitions as quickly as possible.

Luckily i didnt have anything worth trying to recover so i just repartition/formatted and went on.

kujayhawk93

He's talking about a USB flash drive, not a hard drive...

I don't how you even deleted the partition to begin with. I just plugged one of my flash drives in and tried to delete the partition through Disk Management, and it's not even an option...

capy_12090

This software was used in an article I saw the other day to recover data from flash drives:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

karson wong

kujayhawk93 wrote:

He's talking about a USB flash drive, not a hard drive...

I don't how you even deleted the partition to begin with. I just plugged one of my flash drives in and tried to delete the partition through Disk Management, and it's not even an option...

The situation was I reinstalled the XP. When the Blue screen came up it displayed both the hard drive's old partition and the flash drive's partition. I didn't noted that and pressed deleted all. After that my flash drive never can appear again.

RussS

You can recover files from a flash drive with certain tools, but you will not recover the partition. If using the XP Disk Management can not help I suggest contacting the manufacturer - or at least reading their FAQs.

karson wong

Thank you all you guy!

XP disk mamagement can get back the partition but data were lost. Never mind, it just some backup data!

Once Thank you so much!

NinjaBoy

Try this program: http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_media_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

It's freeware and I use the file recovery for HDD/FD's

-Ken

Sie

RussS wrote:

If using the XP Disk Management can not help I suggest contacting the manufacturer - or at least reading their FAQs.

Erm... Russ? Have you re-read that bud?

Silver Bullet

Sie wrote:

RussS wrote:
If using the XP Disk Management can not help I suggest contacting the manufacturer - or at least reading their FAQs.


Erm... Russ? Have you re-read that bud? icon_lol.gif

That utility that RussS is referring to is now coming preloaded with most versions of a Wife.

RussS

ahem .... *cough* .... edited

JDMurray

Damn...I missed it!

Kasor

So, how do we partition USB flash drive. I got a 8G and want to partition it.

Devin McCloud

Testdisk

Kasor

Thanks.

Where do I find out the cylinder/head/sector information? Look like I have to input all of those information from beginning (cylinder/head/sector) to end (cylinder/head/sector).

I'm looking forward to 2GB (R) and 6GB (LE).

How do I compute them using the Testdisk?