What's new

Recovering lost data

Doomulation

?????????????????????????
Alright, so my harddisks are in need of repair.
On one of them, there were two partitions: one primary FAT32 and one logical NTFS. However, windows has formatted this partition wrong. The primary FAT32 partition was about 40 gb although it was only supposed to cover 4 gb. And now the rest of the partition, the NTFS, is unallcolated. So, I resized and re-created these using partition magic. However, all data is lost here.

Same goes for the other disk. There there were two partitions; one NTFS (primary) and one FAT32 (logical). The entire disk was shown as unformated here, so all data is once again lost. I recreated the whole partition as NTFS.

Now, any programs/utilities you would recommend to gain access to the lost data? I know it's possible, and I don't want to destroy the data.
 

t0rek

Wilson's Friend
Well, I'm not very good at this, but you can check the this pj64er thread :

http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=19392

... and also check my case...

http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=19787

They both have a lot of valuable information that may help you...
However if you reformated your partitions after you "losed" your data the first time is very difficult to recover the data because of the fact you reformated them... but I'm not an expert so you can maybe recover your data...
A program that I highly recommend is GetDataBack, you can get it at:

http://runtime.org/

I used it and the results wereimpressive as I said in my other thread, it recovered all my data, I mean ALL! You must use it, but since you reformated your partition I don't give you any warranties, in my case I didn't make anything to my HD such like formating, it was intact until I recovered my data. Well that is all I can say now, I hope you can recover your data, I know how do you feel now...

EDIT: feel free to PM me
 
Last edited:
OP
Doomulation

Doomulation

?????????????????????????
Well, there are proggies out there that can recover lost data from formated partitions...
and the fact being I had to re-create the partitions so I would have space for all data!
I have a proggie that can recover lost data...only, it crashes after the 3 hour long operation to search for all the data that can be recovered =/
 

Top