Hi, Joe.
Have you tried R-Studio? From
http://www.r-tt.com
Costs $79.99 to download, but it found nearly all the files on my 25 GB NTFS
volume last week. I tried some other programs - some cheap, some free - but
none did the job for me.
Back in May, some kind of glitch - I suspect a loose drive cable - caused
Chkdsk to run on bootup and I wasn't watching. Later attempts to run Chkdsk
got progressively worse until it wouldn't run at all on that volume. I set
that volume aside - assigned it to Z: while I created a new E: elsewhere to
use temporarily - so that I wouldn't accidentally write to it while
searching for a fix. Took a couple of months, but at last I found R-Studio
and recovered most of my lost data in an hour or two. I'm still working on
the rest, because some of the folder names are apparently lost and replaced
with names like $$$Folder04333, R-Studio's version of FOUND.000. As soon as
I get time, I'll recover whatever good stuff remains, then reformat that
volume and put it back into service. All the tests say the physical drive
is fine; just NTFS got messed up.
Good luck.
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(E-Mail Removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
"Joe Hoopfer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:MlfWa.22725$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Greetings all,
>
> I installed a new data drive, formatted and transferred old storage files
to
> that drive. Then a major error on my part, thought I was changing drive
> letters and ended up deleting the entire volume.
>
> So, I can assign a drive letter, but the system continues to report that
the
> disk is not formatted. There in lies the problem, I cannot format since
> that will delete the data on the disk, but I cannot get to the data since
it
> is not formatted.
>
> Any ideas on how to recover the data?
>
> TIA,
>
> Joe
Similar Threads
