Ouch. Yes, in fact, the data is probably gone for good :( You can try something like EasyRecovery, but I don't know.
Partition Magic can work, but merging partitions has -never- worked for me a single time. Not once. So, what I generally do is get an external HDD, copy all my data off, and THEN merge the partitions, OR I copy all the data onto another drive/partition local and do it or whatever, but yeah.. merging partitions sucks. :( You can give it a try, but I have a fear you're pretty SOL. FYI, if you read Parition Magic 8.05's manual from Symantec, they note that it is not in any way guaranteed to even function on a RAID, so you'll find them telling you "whoops! Sorry!" and that would be the end of it ;( -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 6:32 PM To: hwg Subject: [H] Problem after partition merge I had my 1 TB RAID array divided up into multiple partitions because I needed to be using FAT32. Now I am converting it to NTFS so I wanted to merge them all together. They are mostly filled with data so I needed to do it on the fly. I used Partition Magic to first convert the partitions from FAT32 to NTFS, then merge 3 into 1. During the process, PM asked what folder name I wanted to use for the files that got moved off the absorbed partition. Once it completed, I rebooted and everything looked fine. However, those folders that were created for the merged data are not accessible. I get a "<folder> is not accessible. Access is denied" error when trying to access them. Looking at the properties, they have a size of 0 bytes and 0 folders. Is that data gone for good? Does it look like my faith in PM was misplaced this time? -- Brian
