It's always the one with the data that breaks I was formatting my system and moving partitions around, so I backed all my media (ripped CDs and DVDs mainly) to a nice, safe, FAT32 partition on my new drive. One windows XP installation later, and the partition shows up as "Healthy (Unknown Partition)". Every other partition works fine so I'm a little confused. If anyone knows how I can get my data off it, I'll be eternally grateful
Can you access the drive in windows or is it in Computer Management that it says "Healthy (Unknown Partition)"? Also if you got all your data off it on cd/dvd cant you use that?
It won't let me assign a drive letter to it, so I can't access it. As for re-ripping it all, that's mostly possible but very time consuming. I've got some other stuff on there that's replacable (but not easily), and some stuff that isn't.
Problem solved, Knoppix saves the day Why linux could read the partition when windows couldn't I don't know...
XP is known to kill partition tables. my lappy for school ran xp pro on the main partition, and 2k adv srv on the little one (for lab work, etc) and every time i rebuilt adv srv, i would have to copy ntldr and ntdetect.com over from the install disk and run recovery console /fixboot and /fixmbr. every time. also had the unknown partition thing after installing red hat on the 2nd partition. lost everything that time, and i just didnt bother trying knoppix. maybe i should have.
