I somehow managed to convert a hard drive accidentally to an EISA parition probably trying to do a backup on another drive via Norton Ghost 10. Is there any way/utility to undo this or is the data on this drive hosed.
The drive was the primary drive for one of my machines and I plugged another drive into that machine to recover data off of it.
Any insight would be helpful.
XP home sp2, drive was primary master/boot/system one and only, the drive I was recovering data from was plugged into the ide cable as secondary slave.
The only EISA that I’m aware of stands for Extended Industry Standard Architecture, an obsolete bus standard for IBM PC compatibles. As I rather doubt that you have magically transformed your hard drive’s physical interface, could you please verify what it is that actually happened.
Thats the problem, I was trying to backup some customer files next time I rebooted the machine it could not find the OS. Tossed in an XP home disk and the windows installer detects an EISA partition where the NTFS used to be. I run a computer repair service and this one has me stumped. Luckily its one of my own machines not a customers :eek:
You’d need a partition table editor to change it back to the NTFS partition type. I don’t know of any offhand but I’m sure some motivated Googling will find one for you, plus the necessary code to designate it as NTFS.
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like that before. The way I’d reset the partition table would be to burn one of those Linux-on-a-disk things to CD, boot from that, and run cfdisk from command line. Here’s the one I usually use: http://www.toms.net/rb/