Partition Magic caused HDD problem

[teknomuffin]

Alright, I'm pretty dissappointed with the "good" reputation PM8.0 had. I recieved it, and in an attempt to resize a partition on my primary hard drive, it was a success, except for one extremely major thing. The drive I had kept my 'My Documents' folder on, along with about 200GB of other information, including music, pictures, school work, etc. has been destroyed. The format is now "Type EE", which I've looked and looked online but it seems I'm the only one with this error. When I try doing anything to the drive I get an error 631. What really bugs me is that this drive wasn't even part of the freaking partition I was resizing, so why would it have been corrupt. I can't do any chkdsk or whatever because my computer doesn't recognize it, not even in Device Manager.

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6149/47268811.jpg

That's an image of the drive and it's properties. I'm totally lost and I need IMEDIATE help.

I've been copying and pasting the above on a few different support forums, but since this is a more technical one, is there a way I can check if the data is still on there? I can't use cmdpromt stuff because it's an unknown format, any ideas if I remove the hard drive and plug it back in, or maybe fix it with the windows disk? I'm runnign Windows XP Pro 64-bit.

[MTAtech]

My experience with PM is mixed. When it works, it works well. When it doesn't, it messes things up badly. I do not use it any longer. Instead, I have a Windows 2008 Server and have a USB disk dock. I pop the disk that I want to resize and resizing partitions is a feature of 2008.

As for your current problem, I think it is hopeless. A good rule is to create an image before making drastic changes to a disk.

[win7er]

I do not use partition magic, as I heard many disaster story. I use easeus partition master, free partitioning tool, works well on my pc, recently, It helped me resize my windows 7 partitions. how to resize windows 7 partition the operation are same if you use on XP.

[Chuckiechan]

First of all XP Pro has ASR - automatic system recovery - a disk image program that works. Use it at least one a month, the use a normal backup program daily.

Having said that, if you fool around with partitions, etc. you should make your image, then make rescue disks, then do the deed.

What is that below the screen. It looks like you have another hard drive.

What you need to do is get some image recovery software, and try to pull off your files. Basically, your file allocation table is bad. I don't know what EE is, but it doesn't matter.

EDIT: I'd call their tech support. They may have a way to help you.