Data lost. Is there hope at all

[Norris Watkins]

I read a lot of threads on the same topic. Did not come across any
that dealt with chkdsk and NTFS. So here I am, hoping that sombody
here might help me.

I have a 40 GB logical partition on a 160 GB disk on windows XP Pro (
SP1 ). Last 2 days I ve been seeing a message in the System tray (
right side of the task bar ) that there is an unreferenced file called
G:\????.
I did not do anything particular since I could not locate any file
called ???? in the G drive.
But then next time I reboted the system ( today ) when windows came up
it ran chkdsk and deleted almost all the files on the drive ?
That s almost all my data gone.
I tried various ways to recover teh data including system restore,
without any success.
Is there any chance for me.
I m willing to purchase software for this purpose.
Are there any good data recovery softwares out there. Do you have any
suggestions.
The data is there on the hard disk, since never wrote anything to this
disk again. Actually I havent done much with it after the apisode at
all. So I have confidence that with the help of some recovery utility,
I might see my precious data again.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

--nw

 

[Craqon]

I've used Get Data Back before and it worked perfect. My
whole drive was corrupt. Here is a list of software and
some resource info as well. Good luck. Though I doubt
you'll need it. Just put your machine off or at least
don't write over that drive, ie the worst you can do now
is a scandisk

R-Studio

http://www.r-tt.com

Disk Commander


http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/diskco
mmander.asp

File Rescue 2.5

http://www.file-rescue.com

GetDataBack for FAT GetDataBack for NTFS

http://www.runtime.org

Norton Utilities/SystemWorks

http://www.symantic.com

Undelete

http://www.executive.com/consumer/undelete/undelete.asp

Hard Drive Mechanic

http://www.highergroundsoftware.com/6.html
http://www.highergroundsoftware.com/downloads2.htm

Back2Life

http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/57588.html

DFSee/

http://www.dfsee.com

Fast File Recovery

http://savemyfiles.com/fastfile.htm

Undelete 3.0

http://www.pcconnection.com/scripts/productdetail.asp?
product_id=309884

Active UNERASER

http://www.uneraser.com/undelete.htm

File Scavenge

http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm

File Restore


http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/filere
store.asp

File Recover 2000 /

http://www.filerecover.com

Undelete

http://www.quantumsoft.co.uk/undelete.stm

Fast File Undelete

http://www.dtidata.com/products_ff_undelete.asp

Data Recovery

http://www.dtidata.com

For NTFS

http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

http://www.ontrack.com/ does data recovery. There are probably other places
locally that can help you out.

 

[Malke]

http://www.ontrack.com/ does data recovery. There are probably other
places locally that can help you out.

www.drivesavers.com

BTW, sounds like you had a virus. I honestly don't think you're going to
be able to handle this one yourself (no offense meant, of course).

Malke

 

[Guest]

Control Panel >> Administritive Tools >> Computer
Managment >> Disk Managment, Click the Drive, Right Click
and Format this will lose everything but should allow it
to work, Or if it is hidden you will see Add Partition.

If this does not work phone up your Local Police Station
and ask for their Computer Forensics and they should be
able to help you, Sorry I cannot be of more help but if
you do not know what your doing I would not advise but
follow them Rules and if it says Unhealthy instead of
Healthy Format the Drive.