NTFS W2K 128GB Files Moved / Undelete Problem

[Andreas Gandor]

Hi,
i have encountered following problem.
After buying for my PC a 160GB drive, partitioning (running under W2K)
i moved files from one partition to another.
After a short time windows remarked inconsisty in his boot partition.
I canceled the moving/copying only to find out that the data has been
written instead in partition E on the area of partition C.
Switched of the computer, installed another boot drive and tried to test
available restoration software.
Most Data i looked for, i was able to restore, but not the folders moved
(which crashed partition C).

My question: is there a software which is able to find the moved folders?
As it seems the software i tested:
NTFS Recovery 1.22
FileScavenger 2.1
Recover It All
Ontrack

was unable to see the files i moved at all

only Restorer2000 see the files in their target partition (but with file
length 0)



now some details :
System W2K SP3 (before crash withoout activated LB bit)
Drive 160GB
Partions (logicaly) C 0-11GB
D 11-126GB
E 127-148GB (phisicaly -10GB - 10GB)

tried to recover files with and without enabled bit
tried to recover files with drive described in bios as 128GB and 160GB

no succes.

i hope to hear about a solution

with kind regards
Andreas Gandor

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Hi,
i have encountered following problem.
After buying for my PC a 160GB drive, partitioning (running under W2K)
i moved files from one partition to another.
After a short time windows remarked inconsisty in his boot partition.
I canceled the moving/copying only to find out that the data has been
written instead in partition E on the area of partition C.
Switched of the computer, installed another boot drive and tried to test
available restoration software.
Most Data i looked for, i was able to restore, but not the folders moved
(which crashed partition C).

My question: is there a software which is able to find the moved folders?
As it seems the software i tested:
NTFS Recovery 1.22
FileScavenger 2.1
Recover It All
Ontrack

was unable to see the files i moved at all

only Restorer2000 see the files in their target partition
(but with file length 0)

How about Windows itself? If it writes the data somewhere else
I would also expect it to read that data in the same wrong locations
that it wrote it.
You will have to recreate the exact same circumstances though.

now some details :
System W2K SP3 (before crash withoout activated LB bit)
Drive 160GB
Partions (logicaly) C 0-11GB
D 11-126GB

E 127-148GB (phisicaly -10GB - 10GB)
huh?


tried to recover files with and without enabled bit

You should try without enabled.

tried to recover files with drive described in bios as 128GB and 160GB

no succes.

i hope to hear about a solution

If you can't get Windows to see them in the destination partition then
you are ****ed. What is left is recovery by filetype header recognition
in the former C: and hope your files were written unfragmented.