Deleted partition recovery

Depending on your resources, there is a version of Norton Ghost which will back up the partition. I say depending, in that I don't know what media you might be able to copy it to. If you have a system with IDE, you can use another IDE drive, as ghost will create an image file on a formatted fat32 file system. Ideally you could write it to a USB drive, but it may be too old. The UBCD if you can find it has a great set of utilities for recovery of corrupted partitions such as you mention. You would take the ghosted image and restore it to a utility drive on a new system The recovery could take place on that ghost restored image, and not risk any damage to your original. I have done this not only with this method, but have taken the ghost restore to a vmware utility system for recovery in one instance. The trick is finding the floppy version of ghost, if that is the only media you have. If you can boot a cdrom (sound like that is unlikely) you could directly use UBCD (Ultimate Boot disk for Windows). the UBCD I have seems to have most of Windows XP implemented in the PE environment which is booted from the CD. Jim On 11/28/2010 12:07 AM, Hollandia at ccountry.net wrote: