HDD partitions f@#*ed and data recovery....

[burt666]

thread title speak for itself, isn't it?

Had a bit of a break down while updating my hardware.... and the partition division of my HDD is all screwed up, and ALL my data unreadable.... i know the data is all here, it's "just" the matter of putting the partition table right again.....

i've been browsing the net for solutions.... and actually found some:

1. pay a company lot of money to retrieve my data...

2. pay less money and invest in a software which hopefully will do the job too....

anobody got other brillant ideas? know some freeware which could do too?

[Progen]

What's the error message?

Perhaps it's bad sectors right where your data is? :D

[burt666]

What's the error message?

Perhaps it's bad sectors right where your data is? :D

no error message, the partition is just.... gone!

[primal]

thread title speak for itself, isn't it?

Had a bit of a break down while updating my hardware.... and the partition division of my HDD is all screwed up, and ALL my data unreadable.... i know the data is all here, it's "just" the matter of putting the partition table right again.....

i've been browsing the net for solutions.... and actually found some:

1. pay a company lot of money to retrieve my data...

2. pay less money and invest in a software which hopefully will do the job too....

anobody got other brillant ideas? know some freeware which could do too?
boot from a second HDD and see what you can do.

search the microsoft site for the windows recovery tools on the windows xp cd.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058

[burt666]

boot from a second HDD and see what you can do.

Done that, and i couldn't do much....:(


search the microsoft site for the windows recovery tools on the windows xp cd.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058

the drive was running from a windows vista RC2.... and that's when i tried the recovery tools on the cd that it went all wrong....

but thanks for the suggestions Primal!

[Archangel]

What's the error message?

Perhaps it's bad sectors right where your data is? :D
Had a look at it the other night, and got a message about the filesystem being past the end of the volume.
The partition table is weird, it's got one small partition taking up a tiny part of the drive, and that's all... putting in a partition the size of the whole drive didn't fix it though.

[burt666]

Had a look at it the other night, and got a message about the filesystem being past the end of the volume.
The partition table is weird, it's got one small partition taking up a tiny part of the drive, and that's all... putting in a partition the size of the whole drive didn't fix it though.

and if Archangel can't solve it that means that's serious... :cry:

[2Dogs]

We just paid $2k at one of those data recovery places :o

I've have copies of Ontrack's data recovery software and R- Studio. I've had reasonable success with them.

The good thing about those Data Recovery places is they usually test first to see if they can do anything.

There was a place in Sydney we used to use, and they were economical. Send the drive to them and it only cost $200 max to get stuff off it.

I'll try to find their number

[burt666]

it only cost $200 max to get stuff off it.



sounds reasonnable... the place in auckland i found so far was $NZ 599 + GST... there is a couple of ohter places tho, but haven't phone them yet....

[Progen]

Whenever someone's willing to pay good money to retrieve something from a hard disk, there's got to be porn involved. :D

And the moral of the story is ............


If you've got something worth keeping, BACK IT UP!!!

[primal]

yeah i have used ontrack, dont know about the r-studio stuff never had success with it.

i liked ontracks boot up floppy you can download the demo which will enable you to know whether or not to spend the money on buying it.