Storage Solutions My Harddisk partitions just vanished! Strange

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So I have this Lennovo Thinkpad T520 laptop. It has a total HDD capacity of 300 GB.

On it's arrival I had created few partitions to store movies , music etc. It was some 4 months ago.

Everything was working flawlessly till now. Today when I opened my Music player to play a song , I got the shock of my life!! It said that it couldn't find the files.

So I went to Computer, only to find this:

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All my other drives are vanished. It's just not there.

I am sure I didn't do anything at all in the past two days. And all the files were there the day before.

So I went to Disk Management and I see this:

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Strange, how it says that C drive is for 300 GB, while in the first line it tells me its for 58 GB (which is what it shows in My Computer).

When I try to Shrink the volume, it gives me a limit of 20 GB ( I assume because it's the Free space available).

To make everything worse, My system recovery was not turned on.

And since this is a Office laptop, I can't risk doing anything nerdy .

Any suggestion guys. It's the weirdest sh!t I've ever seen.

Lots of Data is there. It just vanished.
 
Get Partition Find and mount, it will show the vanish partition, next backup your data, and reformat your HDD.

This is what i did
 
I can't reformat my disk. It's a office laptop and there are lot's of software installed on it which I will not be able to install.
 
first take backup of your current system using hiren boot cd or any disk cloning software before touching/ changing partitions from current state. Because if something wrong happens in between, your office installed OS will be gone making big mess. After taking backup, you can use softwares to restore your old partitions which will make you change your current system partition as well.
 
#eggman,

1.Remove the HDD and connect to a desktop, next make image of the C drive using norton ghost.

2. Not use partition find and mount to see all the hidden partition.

3. backup and reformat
 
lll_aritra_lll said:
try system restore
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AFAIK, system restore doesn't keeps the partition table info, so system restore won't help

Superbad said:
can you see the disk in the bios?

then try connect the HDD to another system and backup your data.
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read the first post, it is detected and OP can boot, just some of his partition went AWOL, and connecting the HDD to another system, won't bring back the lost partition.
 
It's an office laptop. Don't touch anything and simply handover to your IT department. Why go through with all the headache when (if something goes wrong) you are going to hear "Why didn't you bring it here?" in the end.?
 
This happened to me recently too. My 1 TB drive which had 2 active partitions went into Dynamic disk mode. After I switched it to Basic mode, I could only get one partition. I was able to find and mount the other partition using 'Partition Find and Mount' software, but it would only allow read access and the mount isn't permanent. I could back up the data, but the bigger question is, why isn't this partition recognised in Windows and why can't it be mounted normally?
 
Guys what could cause such a weird problem ? Could be there some common reason for this issue to arise ?
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Virus ?

HDD drive malfunction ?

Shock to HDD due to dropping ?

OS corruption ?

MBR data corruption ?

#CA50 & #eggman as you have experienced this issue maybe you could explain it better ?
 
Ethan_Hunt said:
This happened to me recently too. My 1 TB drive which had 2 active partitions went into Dynamic disk mode. After I switched it to Basic mode, I could only get one partition. I was able to find and mount the other partition using 'Partition Find and Mount' software, but it would only allow read access and the mount isn't permanent. I could back up the data, but the bigger question is, why isn't this partition recognised in Windows and why can't it be mounted normally?
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Mate, the partition , that you found using partition find and mount, are the lost one, so those will bot be permanent.

The best you can do, is copy the data to another HDD, and reconfigure it from scratch, like clearing all partition, creating new one.

cooleagle said:
Guys what could cause such a weird problem ? Could be there some common reason for this issue to arise ?
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Virus ?

HDD drive malfunction ?

Shock to HDD due to dropping ?

OS corruption ?

MBR data corruption ?
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Even i don't have the proper reason, but i think its due to some MBR corruption.
 
The worst thing is that a corner of my laptop got accidentally broken off. That's why I'm a bit reluctant to take it to the IT dept.
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It's just few months old.
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eggman said:
The worst thing is that a corner of my laptop got accidentally broken off. That's why I'm a bit reluctant to take it to the IT dept.

It's just few months old.
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Oops ! Then in that case your HDD partitions could have vanished due to the shock it received when that incident happened.

By the way how badly broken is it ?
 
I really don't think it's the shock, but I can't rule it out. I will post the pics if possible.

But I don't understand why only the other drives than C?

The partitions are logical and not physical. I can understand if the whole Harddisk failed or something.
 
eggman said:
I really don't think it's the shock, but I can't rule it out. I will post the pics if possible.

But I don't understand why only the other drives than C?

The partitions are logical and not physical. I can understand if the whole Harddisk failed or something.
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Yep that seems logical to me but as you say we can't rule that possibility out.
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Could you explain what actually happened to your lappy ?
 
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