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Old 24th Jun 2006, 10:01
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External USB drive suddenly unallocated (XP)*Fixed*

I'd usually figure this out for myself but I've just had a death in the family and I'm not thinking so well. Lack of sleep does that...
My trusty BitTorrent machine has a 250GB external USB HDD with two partitions. I think that they were both primary.
After an involuntary reboot, it saw the entire drive as unallocated space under disk management. Plugging the drive into a spare machine gives me the same result.
My hunch is that the reboot interrupted the I/O to the disk and buggered the partition table
Does anyone know of a utility I can use to recover the partitons?
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions
BOFH

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