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Originally Posted by lumberjim
if what doesn't work?
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Apparently you guys did some things that do not appear here. Spinrite from Gibson Research is one of the tools suggested earlier.
However, anything your do to fix or change a partition (disk software) without first confirming disk hardware integrity can make things even worse. It appears you have an intermittent failure (unless you did something elsewhere to delete that partition).
That Ultimate Boot CD web site has numerous disk hardware diagnostics for each disk manufacturer. You want to confirm hardware is not causing problems (ie deleting a partition) before trying to restore that partition. Some hardware problems, if identified by the manufacturer diagnostic, can be fixed before the intermittent failure causes worse software damage.
Anything more you do to change the drive will make more data impossible to recover. Best is to confirm disk hardware really is working. Right now, your hardware may be intermittent which is why the partition is (temporarily) deleted. Try that diagnostic from the UBCD web site (for your drive). Because that only reports what you have and does not change anything - does not put data at further risk.