Recover harddisk data

[Alan T]

I got a nightmare of my harddisk recently:
My harddisk has dual boot of XP and Win2K, recently all partitions are 0KB
in size after I boot into my VISTA(installed on another harddisk). The VISTA
did a consistency check and deleted indexes and inserted the indexes on the
XP harddisk. I tried to view the XP's harddisk from VISTA, the partitions
are 0 KB in size and cannot be accessed from Windows Explorer.

Can I use the XP setup disk to boot up and do a recovery?

 

[Ron Badour]

I don't know the answer considering the shape your partitions are in. If
these partitions contain info that is not backed up, I suggest that you use
data recovery software before you do anything else.

 

[Alan T]

What free data recovery software can I use? Am I running from Vista?

 

[Ron Badour]

This is the only free one I know of and I do not know if it will work with
Vista (Vista is not listed as a support o/s):
http://www.webattack.com/get/restoration.html You could load the program to
another computer with a supported system and then temporarily connect the
problem hard drive to that computer.

 

[Ron Martell]

What free data recovery software can I use? Am I running from Vista?

Try MBRWORK from the free software section at
www.terabyteunlimited.com

It runs from a bootable diskette or CD.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2008)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

 

[HddRecovery]

Not aware of any free one But this data recovery software really
worked for me. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software. It
provides partition recovery from FAT 16, FAT 32, NTFS & NTFS5 file
system. It will locate the lost data and partition from your hard
drive and help you to recover all of them.
Download the software from: http://www.stellarinfo.com/spwdr.exe
Product Information: http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm

 

[Dark Quad]

I got a nightmare of my harddisk recently:
My harddisk has dual boot of XP and Win2K, recently all partitions are 0KB
in size after I boot into my VISTA(installed on another harddisk). The VISTA
did a consistency check and deleted indexes and inserted the indexes on the
XP harddisk. I tried to view the XP's harddisk from VISTA, the partitions
are 0 KB in size and cannot be accessed from Windows Explorer.

Can I use the XP setup disk to boot up and do a recovery?

I don't think that you could do recovering booting from XP setup disk.
It would be better to do recovery from another PC.

As for the software - try DiskInternals Partition Recovery, it works
fine with VISTA, as I remember.

http://recovery-review.com/unformat-tools/diskinternals-partition-recovery-1-9.html

btw, it's a cool site with a plenty of software reviews, so you could
do some search there.