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| 808546 | 2009-09-10 05:55:00 | Ok.. Lost my partition about 250gb worth of thing I have acquired from over the years. What do I do? Anything that can try and recover it without formating it? Thanks. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 808547 | 2009-09-10 05:57:00 | disconnect the drive and slave it to another PC possibly running Linux, or just run a linux live CD | gary67 (56) | ||
| 808548 | 2009-09-10 06:01:00 | Unfortunately I can't do that either... I just restarted the system and it didn't mount the partition (NTFS) in openSuse. Tried to mount it manually said it wasn't a valid NTFS partition or some such nonsense. Now I booted into Vista and it says it's formated. | Cato (6936) | ||
| 808549 | 2009-09-10 06:04:00 | GetDataBack (www.runtime.org) for NTFS - I've had good success with that program. Not too sure how much the free demo does though. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 808550 | 2009-09-10 06:10:00 | I use this one. Not cheap but works as advertised. www.easeus.com |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 808551 | 2009-09-10 06:19:00 | Had a look at the sectors in a Paragon Partition Manager recovery CD... Grub stamps all over it. "MGR is compressed" also stands out. Any ideas? |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 808552 | 2009-09-10 06:39:00 | GetDataBack (www.runtime.org) for NTFS - I've had good success with that program. Not too sure how much the free demo does though. I'll second getdataback - best recovery program I have used - tried several, and this one works when others dont. You need to slave the drive, install the software on the working PC - the trial will go through the whole process right to the point of recovering it - then it wants $$. 250GB of data - will take a hour or so or three to scan. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 808553 | 2009-09-10 06:46:00 | Only have one PC unfortunately. Any chance it can make itself a bootable cd? Edit: Says in the description it is. I guess I'll have to get it. Thanks all. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 808554 | 2009-09-10 09:53:00 | I had the program from http://www.findandmount.com/ work for me. It brought up all the data as read only, I copied it to a backup drive, then reformatted the original drive and installed from the backup. Warning this was a data only drive, I have no experience of how it would work with programs,games etc. | PPp (9511) | ||
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