Failing Partition

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Ok, I've partitioned my hard drive into a 60GB partition and a 90GB
partition. Just this past week I rebooted my computer only to find that the
90GB partition to be RAW and requiring a format. Mind you, I had about half
of the 90GB partition filled with important documents and backed up files
(stuff I would rather not lose). My question is what could be the problem and
is there a free way to fix it?
 
Hi,

I don`t know about a free way, but try restorer2000, I had a partition die
on me as well, only way to fix it would be to reformat it. I tried the demo
version of restorer2000 and it was able to read the partition, catch is, it
will only let you recover 64kb or less files with the demo, so I paid 49.99
and bought the Restorer2000 Pro which does both FAT32 and NTFS and was able
to recover all the data on my failed partition. I recommend trying the demo
to see if it can read and see the files.

Jeff
 
darksydeavenger said:
Ok, I've partitioned my hard drive into a 60GB partition and a 90GB
partition. Just this past week I rebooted my computer only to find that the
90GB partition to be RAW and requiring a format. Mind you, I had about half
of the 90GB partition filled with important documents and backed up files
(stuff I would rather not lose). My question is what could be the problem and
is there a free way to fix it?
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If you have formatted your lost partition then it's probably too late
to retrieve anything. Otherwise one of the following tools might
help:

http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm (to restore NTFS partitions - seems to
work well)
http://www.hddrecovery.com.au
http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz (has NTFS undelete tools too)
http://www.runtime.org/ (GetDataBack)
www.acronis.com (RecoveryExpert)

There appears to be something badly amiss with your backup
strategy. The iron rule of computing says that all important files
must be backed up weekly to at least one but prefereably two
or more independent media. If you use your main disk as a
backup medium then your backup is only marginally effective.
You will lose all of your data in the case of
- Hard disk failure
- File corruption due to OS problems
- Overwriting the only good backup copy with a corrupted copy of a file
- Inadvertent deletion
- Fire, theft, lightning

One or two extra disks, with cradles, would address these issues
quite nicely.
 
I find it really amusing how so many people post that they have lost
IMPORTANT files (files that they can't afford to be without) and then ask
about FREE recovery software.

Hell, if the files are so important, buy a good recovery program. Then,
learn how to use your computer and protect your information so you never have
to use the recovery application a second time!

Such stupidity!
 
I find it amusing that so many people partition a hard drive when they
can buy a controller card for around $40 and use up to 4 additional
drives. A hell of a lot safer than partitions.

"Try Reading - it's enlightening!"
|I find it really amusing how so many people post that they have lost
| IMPORTANT files (files that they can't afford to be without) and then ask
| about FREE recovery software.
|
| Hell, if the files are so important, buy a good recovery program. Then,
| learn how to use your computer and protect your information so you never
have
| to use the recovery application a second time!
|
| Such stupidity!
|
| "darksydeavenger" wrote:
|
| > Ok, I've partitioned my hard drive into a 60GB partition and a 90GB
| > partition. Just this past week I rebooted my computer only to find that
the
| > 90GB partition to be RAW and requiring a format. Mind you, I had about
half
| > of the 90GB partition filled with important documents and backed up
files
| > (stuff I would rather not lose). My question is what could be the
problem and
| > is there a free way to fix it?
 
Frank said:
I find it amusing that so many people partition a hard drive when they
can buy a controller card for around $40 and use up to 4 additional
drives. A hell of a lot safer than partitions.
Click to expand...

Even with that, what if your computer catches fire?? I have a backup
partition, external USB drive, and important files backed to CD/DVD.

FWIW, JAX
 
|
| | >I find it amusing that so many people partition a hard drive when they
| > can buy a controller card for around $40 and use up to 4 additional
| > drives. A hell of a lot safer than partitions.
|
| Even with that, what if your computer catches fire?? I have a backup
| partition, external USB drive, and important files backed to CD/DVD.
|
| FWIW, JAX

I use 3 40GB HDD on a controller set to RAID 0, 120GB USB HDD
for backup. I have a bunch of crap stored on older not used HDDs
which if I want to use these I have Mobile racks.
My point is that partitioning a HDD is ludicrous, on many points.
 
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