Recover a damaged partition

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Kev Middleman

Hi there,

My secondary hard disc is slpit into two partitions, the second of which
Windows will not now read.

The drive is still displayed in windows explorer although it cannot be
accessed. Viewing the properties of the drive shows the size of the
partition (60Gb) but all other fields are blank.

I'm planning on clearing out both drives and reinstalling windows but I
don't want to lose the data on this drive.

Is there any way to get the data off of the disk that anyone can suggest?

Thanks,

Kevin
 
My secondary hard disc is slpit into two partitions, the second of which
Windows will not now read.

The drive is still displayed in windows explorer although it cannot be
accessed. Viewing the properties of the drive shows the size of the
partition (60Gb) but all other fields are blank.

I'm planning on clearing out both drives and reinstalling windows but I
don't want to lose the data on this drive.

Is there any way to get the data off of the disk that anyone can suggest?
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Yes, there are some packages you can download that will recover the
partition info:

http://www.diydatarecovery.com/

is a good place to start. Search also for BootMaster, a great freeware
program, the website is something like bootmaster.filerecover.biz or some
such.

In any case, first thing to do is clone the disk, and *definitely* do not
write anything to it...don't run chkdsk or anything else that will write
to it.

For data recovery, I used GetDataBack ($69 for FAT32) from
http://www.runtime.org/ - worth the money for me because it recovered a
lot of the data I thought I had lost.

For the future - make copies of your MBR and partition info using your
disk drive manufacturer's software. And backup your data regularly,
ofcourse!

I learned the hard way a week or two ago :)

Himanshu
 
Use the file-transfer wizard in XP,set comp.to old,
place the data in a new folder,when its thru,transfer
to a cd.
 
Thanks for the advice.

For the record of anyone else searching this archive...

- Tried file transfer wizard but this still couldn't read the corrupted
drive
- Eventually settled on iRecover software and have managed to copy my data
to primary hard disc.

Now the easy job of formatting everything and re-installing everything to
look forward to...

Thanks again,

K
 
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