Data Recovery

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I am not sure this belongs here, but it seems to be the best fit.
Please advise if I am wrong.

I have a 40 gig laptop drive that originally was partitioned into two
partitions 30gig NTFS and a 7 gig FAT32. I used convert to change the
FAT32 to NTFS, and that was successful. I then used partition magic
8.0 to merge the two partitions together, and that failed. I
completely lost the data on both partitions.

I have used several tools to try to find the data, and have dumped the
MBR and the partition records, and all seem to be messed up. I have
scanned the disk, and the data is still there, but the MFT records are
not correct. the current organization appears to have the full disk
defined as partition C and it is overlapped at the end by partition D.
I have found several programs that seem to say that they will recover
my data, but from what I can see none is able to recover my folder
structure. I obviously don’t want to rebuild 40 gigabytes of folders,
so I would appreciate any input on what programs work best.

 

[Guest]

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[Guest]

I suggest you use Partition Table Doctor to resolve your
problem.The software provides very useful functions:
Backup partition table, Restore partition table, Rebuild
partition table, undelete partition, Fix boot sector,
rebuild mbr,etc.

First thing I recommend you download the demo version of
Partition Table Doctor.( http://www.ptdd.com/download.htm )

Run the program and select "Rebuild Partition Table",
then choose "Interactive" mode.

See more: http://www.ptdd.com/recoverylostpartition.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/recoverdeletedpartition.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/partition-recovery.htm
http://www.ptdd.com