HELP! I've just lost my primary slave drive (Western Digital 120GB) and I didn't have a backup for it yet. I've partitioned it but didn't format it back to NTFS yet. Is there a way to restore all the files on a hard drive after partitioning or formatting? Or reconstruct the files on another drive?

"HELP! I've just lost my primary slave drive (Western Digital 120GB) and I didn't have a backup for it yet. I've partitioned it but didn't format it back to NTFS yet. Is there a way to restore all the files on a hard drive after partitioning or formatting? Or reconstruct the files on another drive?"

Oh man... if you partitioned it after your drive was lost, you're gonna spend a lot of money (or time) to get the data back. Did the drive itself die or did the filesystem just get corrupted? Don't do anything else with the drive, like format it or anything else until you can get a tool or service to recover the data.

Jim

"HELP! I've just lost my primary slave drive (Western Digital 120GB) and I didn't have a backup for it yet. I've partitioned it but didn't format it back to NTFS yet. Is there a way to restore all the files on a hard drive after partitioning or formatting? Or reconstruct the files on another drive?"

Here's some software that has helped me recover from a RAID Zero array, now, not every file was recovered, but most of them were

http://www.r-tt.com/

I have no idea what happened to the drive. After turning on the computer the D: drive is gone from My Computer. I went to Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management then the disk setup wizard show up and I partitioned it. Might be a virus. I'll do a scan after finding a way to recover the files.

www.convar.de

PC Inspector File Recovery 3.0

"www.convar.de

PC Inspector File Recovery 3.0"

I use that one, it's good, & I have a free version...

(Is it still a freebie?)

* I don't know if they still give that one away is why I ask! I may go look now @ your link URL...

(Nice part is, though, is that it works on all filesystems & types of drives (have not tried it on a network share of any type though)).

APK

Yes it's still free. Should I format the drive back to NTFS before running the software or just leave it as the way it is now?

"www.convar.de

PC Inspector File Recovery 3.0"

That's an awesome program! Thanks for the link I had a drive corrupt on me over the weekend myself and this recovered my files. I had a backup that was about a week old so I recovered most everything, but this program found the rest!

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Yes it's still free. Should I format the drive back to NTFS before running the software or just leave it as the way it is now?"

no, don't format. that'll make it harder to get the files.

Jim

"That's an awesome program! Thanks for the link I had a drive corrupt on me over the weekend myself and this recovered my files. I had a backup that was about a week old so I recovered most everything, but this program found the rest!"

Isn't it though?

Sometimes, the old adage is true:

"The good things in life are free..."



* I like it myself, & it has saved my tail a few times when I "had my viking war helmet on complete with wings/horns & the war-axe was out & I was out raping & pillaging files on my disks"!

(Yes, I deleted some files stupidly I later needed... yes, it does happen on occasion, lol!)

APK

P.S.=> And, this program saved my butt, couple times now in fact... man, I ought to list it as the default undelete app I refer users to in my toolset actually... I think the .ini file has it in there, but I don't tell folks "Go here for a great undelete tool that works on all filesystems in 2k/XP" if they did not select an undelete tool, or just don't have one! I do that for AntiVirus stuff (referring folks to free AVG or AntiVir)... apk

Well, all I did over the weekend to hose my d: drive was do an xcopy of my favorites folder to a folder called favorites on my d: drive. When I went to look to see that the copy was successful I found a corrupted filesystem.

I found another program on some shareware site that promised to recover the files but all it found was the contents of the favorites folder... weird. didn't find a folder called favorites with the contents of my favorites folder, just the contents of my favorites scattered all over the drive. It was a compressed NTFS drive, who knows... maybe the compressed part changed something with xcopy, I dunno.

After running the PC Inspector File Recovery program it found and recovered almost everything. Some of the files were .zip files that didn't make it through the recovery process though, which leads me to the point of this response

another program worthy of the $29.95 registration fee. Advanced Zip Repair http://www.repairfile.com/ It didn't fix the .zip files completely, but it always made the file openable so I could at least get the intact files out. Worth checking out if you guys haven't seen it yet.

Jim

"another program worthy of the $29.95 registration fee. Advanced Zip Repair http://www.repairfile.com/ It didn't fix the .zip files completely, but it always made the file openable so I could at least get the intact files out. Worth checking out if you guys haven't seen it yet.

Jim"

Hmmm, that IS something worth having, especially if you are a downloads freak that does not regularly archive to Cd-Roms, DvD's, or zipdisks etc.

(In fact... I built a "zip-repair" feature into my toolset this round that works pretty darn well!)

* I had problems in second disk that was on HighPoint RAID controller (not striped, spanned, or in RAID... just on it, acting as backup storage for my work, downloads, & GHOST'ing area).

I too, burnt it, not quite same as yourself (& it also was compressed, held up for a year or so, but one day... BOOM!).

Lost ALOT of really neat & up-to-date downloads because of it, & as nice as PC-File Inspector is, it could not get all of them back, many were corrupted... spent weeks pulling them in again over time etc. as per usual.



APK

P.S.=> I hate wasting time like that too... so I built a ziprepair tool into my utilities I do as shareware. Had zip/unzip in there already, calling Winxp native DynaZip licensed zip/unzip .dll's, but lacked corrupt zipfile fixer, done now. Had to have it... sounds to me like you are a massive downloader as well of files from online & could use the tool you suggest as well!

I learned a lesson though: BACKUP MORE OFTEN!
apk

Great!

Glad to hear my recommendation helped a few more people!

Had to use that program myself when a disgruntled employee pulled something shady within their department ........

I downlaoded a program called GetDataBack which got me everything back... and I mean EVERYTHING.


www.getdataback.com

PC Inspector File Recovery 3.0 does not work for me. It keeps on giving me a "Division by Zero" error during scanning. I did end up using GetDataBack for NTFS (they made a separate one for FAT) to recover the files. Oh File Scavenger is also a good choice.

P.S. DO NOT use Ontrack's EasyRecovery. It doesn't preserve the tree structure and renamed all the files by file type (all ZIPs in one folder and names 001.zip, 002.zip, etc.), the program runs slow and they charge a lot for the license also.

Ive tried getdataback, it it is pretty good. I have not tried this PC Inspector, and I also have used FileScavenger. Out of GetDataBack and FileScavenger I liked FileScavenger better. I will have to try PC inspector if i ever have the need for it. Hopefully I dont but a nice fallback is good to have.

i will agree with Arin.GetDataBack.
the PC inspector did not work for me.
also the tiramisu it was a little good
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Hello,

DataRecoveryWizard utility can help. Speaking about me, it was
easily able to restore lost data, so I think you will
also find it quite useful. Really recommended tool, give it a try.

http://www.******.com/