[perfect stranger]

Thanks for your help.

[jdm]

Pinging ShadowAce for you. He’s an excellent FReeper who’s been of great help to me in the past. Perhaps he can assist here.

[ShadowAce]

You haven't mentioned te OS on this drive. The OS can make a great difference in how you created the partitions and thus whether you will be able to see them once another OS boots up.

[antiRepublicrat]

Don't Touch!

Anything you do can screw up your chances of getting your data back. Go get a file recovery program like File Scavenger. Free demo to see if it works, $49 to buy. It will scan your whole hard drive (may take a while) and copy any data it's found to a new hard drive. As long as you haven't touched anything, you will probably recover close to 100% of your files, if not all of them.

[Tribune7]

The data should be there. There is disk recovery software that should work for getting it back. For a Mac, I recommend Disk Warrior.

[rabscuttle385]

See Comment 9 from ThomasThomas. You need to check to see if Windows is even noticing the second partition on the drive. Perhaps Windows did not assign a drive letter to the second partition and you would not see it show up in the Explorer shell (in "My Computer").

Comment 5 from puppypusher is also okay. Return the hardware back to its original configuration. If the second partition shows up, make a backup first, and then make your changes.

Obviously, since the first partition is still showing up, I am going to assume that the drive platters and electronics are still working fine, in which case, your data is still there (unless you did something really dumb like overwrite the second partition with a new partition and new data).

Hopefully, the lesson learned is to always make (and test) a backup copy of any data that you can't stand losing, before making significant hardware and software changes.

[yhwhsman]

When you put it in the external casing, were you supposed to change the jumper so this is a slave drive? This connects by usb doesn't it?

[rarestia]

Right-click on My Computer on the desktop. Go to Manage. On the left side of the window, click on Disk Management. The disk should show up in there as something other than Disk0 (which will be the new boot disk/partition). You should see your old disk in there, and the two partitions will be clearly visible. Just right-click on each of the partitions and assign a drive letter (Change drive letter, if I'm not mistaken), and voila!

Spending money on software should be the last step. If the disk was working fine before, no spinup issues or clicking noises, there's no reason XP's tools can't get the job done for you.

[ken in texas]

So, do you have any hard drives in the computer now or is the only drive the 200G that you have in the external enclosure? Did you boot from that USB drive?

[VOA]

I don’t have answers, but will
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