data recovery

[John]

Anyone know a cheap solution for data recovery? My 149.05 GB hard drive was
reformated from FAT32 to NTFS. It was also partitioned before it was
reformated into three different sections: 1) 7.84 GB Healty(Unknown
Partition) 2) 120.15 GB NTFS (Healthy)Boot 3) 21.06 GB Unallocated. The Data
I want to access is on the 7.84 GB Healty (Unknown Partition) However, I can
not retrieve the data. I know the data is there because I found a data
recovery web site that mirroed my hard drive and I was able to view the
contents of the unknown partition. All of my files were there. The web site
wanted $3000 to recover the lost data. The data is mainly Multimedia files
(jpg, gif, mp3, mov, avi, wmp, mpg, etc.) Also, how do I accesss the 21.06
GB Unallocated section of my drive. The only part I can use now is the
120.15 GB NTFS (Healthy)Boot section of the drive. This is where I have my
windows XP operating system installed so I am approching my dilemma with
caution as I don't want to loose any more data. Any assistance that can be
offered would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Jack Novelli <[email protected]>

 

[Malke]

Anyone know a cheap solution for data recovery? My 149.05 GB hard
drive was reformated from FAT32 to NTFS. It was also partitioned
before it was reformated into three different sections: 1) 7.84 GB
Healty(Unknown Partition) 2) 120.15 GB NTFS (Healthy)Boot 3) 21.06 GB
Unallocated. The Data I want to access is on the 7.84 GB Healty
(Unknown Partition) However, I can not retrieve the data. I know the
data is there because I found a data recovery web site that mirroed my
hard drive and I was able to view the contents of the unknown
partition. All of my files were there. The web site wanted $3000 to
recover the lost data. The data is mainly Multimedia files (jpg, gif,
mp3, mov, avi, wmp, mpg, etc.) Also, how do I accesss the 21.06 GB
Unallocated section of my drive. The only part I can use now is the
120.15 GB NTFS (Healthy)Boot section of the drive. This is where I
have my windows XP operating system installed so I am approching my
dilemma with caution as I don't want to loose any more data. Any
assistance that can be offered would be greatly appreciated. Thank
you. Jack Novelli

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The only free data recovery software I know of is this one:

Restoration:
http://www.geocities.jp/br_kato/

I have not ever used it. You should do nothing more on the pc with the
data you want to recover. Download and create boot disks for recovery
programs on a different computer.

OnTrack's Easy Recovery Pro is good, but not inexpensive:

Ontrack's EasyRecovery
http://www.ontrack.com/Homepage.aspx?id=3&pagename=Software

They allow you to download a trial version to see what it will recover
so you don't need to spend the money up front.

I don't know what data recovery website you used, but for professional
data recovery I like DriveSavers:

http://www.drivesavers.com

Their services are not inexpensive, but only you can determine what you
want to spend.

After you get it all sorted out, get yourself a cd or dvd burner and
back up on a regular basis.

Good luck,

Malke

 

[Richard Urban]

If you have partitioned and formatted your hard drive there is no
"inexpensive" way to get the files back. EasyRecovery Professional ($800.00)
from www.ontrack.com can get back files from a partitioned drive, as long as
nothing has been written to the drive. If the drive has been written to it's
a crap shoot. Then you will have to go with the VERY expensive way.

Lesson learned!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard