[kingofspoof]

Hi
Found some very useful info on here so decided to sign up and post a recent problem i encountered with an external hard drive. the hard drive has a capacity of 80GB and came from another pc. there was a 25/55 partition already on it from the old pc. i tried to delete the partition that was 25gb. now i can't find that 25gb at all. when i plug it in to the usb slot i can only see the 55gb partition (it used to appear as 2 hard drives in my computer) and nothing else. when i use disc management to format it i only see 55gb. is there a way of retrieving the other partition that seems to be lost!?

thanks in advance

KoS

[DaveBurnett]

SwissKnife http://www.compuapps.com/download/Sw...swissknife.htm is one good tool

[kingofspoof]

thanks that is a useful tool and free too!!

another question: how do i retrieve files on an external hdd that has been corrupted? the disk appears when i plug it in to the usb port, but i can't get to any of the files. sometimes folders appear but when i click on them windows explorer just hangs?