Used Partition Magic 7 to merge partition. Can't see my files.

[JonathanB]

Have a C, D, and E partition. Win ME. Merged D and E. Now I can't see my files in D. Anybody knows how to retrieve my files?

[BipolarBill]

Have the contents of D been dumped in a folder?

[Bone Collector]

i think that you can't recover your files on D: partition because PM has probably written data from E: partition over the files from D: partition

[JonathanB]

Have several folders in D. Transfered all folders from E to D and defrag D. It had a 1 gig freespace before the merging. Used NTFS reader (for another use) and I can see the folders in D. But NTFS reader can't copy files in fat32. It's there, just need an app to transfer it to a good partition. In windows, it says the partition is not formatted.

[Bone Collector]

windows me can't see NTFS partitions

[JonathanB]

Yes ME cannot read NTFS. I ran NTFS reader from Active in DOS to backup some files in NTFS from another drive to this drive E. It also can see the folders in D but it cannot copy to a safe partition because it is in fat32.

[JonathanB]

I think am losing hope. I run Lost & Found of PQ and it says the boot sector is invalid. Run PM8 and it says D is FAT32 but clicking the menus if I want to convert it, they're grayed. I plan to convert it to NTFS and have DOS NTFS app recover it. But the convertion menus are grayed. Run PM8 error check and it has no error. DOS NTFS (an app from ACTIVE) can see all my files there.

[JonathanB]

Just for those who have same prob... was able to recover part of my files using the demo iRecover. Some MS Word were damaged but was able to recover half. All the pdf files were corrupted during the recovery. Formatted the partition and am now okay. Thanks also 2 'ol.