Whats the best utility to undelete a deleted partition?

[John]

Yup the idiocy continues.

Still having big quirky problems with my motherboard so I decided to
reinstall WIN XP after moving all my data from the Hitachi to my other
5 HDs. Unfortunately when it came time to delete the old partition on
the Hitachi I inadverdantly deleted another 200 gig partition instead.
Yup its hard to do but I did it anyway when I was all worked up ,
pissed off and it was late at night. Now I hopefully can undelete this
partition and its 200 gigs of data.

By the way Im RMAing that chaintech thats it !

Ive remounted that nforce4 chip cooler 5 times. Its not rocket science
and Im using all official mountings, fans and heatsinks from Chaintech
that they use on the same boards. How freaking hard can it be?

It seems to get a little bit better after I mess with it but the whole
PC acts weird - locking up randomly out of the blue after a while,
corrupting data, crashing. The last time it seemed to settle down but
playing FAR CRY it crashed about 15 times !

Ive checked memory once again, checked and tried to swap out 6
different HDs. Reisntalled WIN XP PRO again. Even have a new processor
X2 dual core which I got last night. Not that I thought it was a
processor problem at all but thought that gave me a good chance to
eliminate that too. Its got to be the board.

An outside chance it could be some virus that cant be wiped out unless
low level formatted.

Could it also be my ATI 800XL too? Since its acting up in games. Sure
dont have another graphics card to test that but since theres an
obvious correlation with a lot of the wackiness and the nforce4 chip
its definitely not the main culprit if its even a factor at all.

ive had a few other motherboards that flaked out after a year. Its
good to get a MB with a 3 year warranty.

 

[Joe]

A few months back I reinstalled windows and somehow or another managed to
make my second drive that I had moved everything I wanted to save to
unreadable in the process. File Scavenger got it all aback for me.
http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm
Joe

 

[John]

A few months back I reinstalled windows and somehow or another managed to
make my second drive that I had moved everything I wanted to save to
unreadable in the process. File Scavenger got it all aback for me.
http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm
Joe

That looks like a good one.

I went to the site and read up on it.

I ended up using Active Partition recovery.

Active has a few primitive looking programs like KILL DISK which
overwrites everything on your hard disk etc 3 times to make it almost
impossible to undelete and a few others like Partition Recovery and
Undelete.

They put all of them together in a program called Active Boot Disk and
it works well. I undeleted the Partition after detecting it in less
than a minute. I thought there would be some dramatic grinding away at
the HD as it rewrote 200 gig or something but it was poof and then it
undeleted - the partition.

 

[ModeratelyConfused]

That looks like a good one.

I went to the site and read up on it.

I ended up using Active Partition recovery.

Active has a few primitive looking programs like KILL DISK which
overwrites everything on your hard disk etc 3 times to make it almost
impossible to undelete and a few others like Partition Recovery and
Undelete.

They put all of them together in a program called Active Boot Disk and
it works well. I undeleted the Partition after detecting it in less
than a minute. I thought there would be some dramatic grinding away at
the HD as it rewrote 200 gig or something but it was poof and then it
undeleted - the partition.

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but when something is 'deleted' or
'formated', it's only marked to be overwritten, not actually 'gone forever'.

MC

 

[John]

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but when something is 'deleted' or
'formated', it's only marked to be overwritten, not actually 'gone forever'.

You are correct. So I should have assumed it would be quick but the
other utilities come to think of it also backed up data so thats what
Im thinking about. You know when you recover files with scandisk in
Direct CD and many other utilities Ive used etc it undeletes/recovers
files and recopies them, another safety step.

 

[Davy]

May be it's me I dunno, but I remember deleting a partition with X
pro without
'any' utilities, I seem to remember going into Contro
panel/Performance & Maintenance/Admin Tools, then finall
Computer Management and clicking Storage

Twas a long time ago and I created a partition from there as well, s
rather than spend your hard earned cash I'd take a look first..

Deleting a partition will delete all the contents within it, so b
careful you delete the correct one...

Dav

 

[coal_brona]

Hi,

Active@ Undelete and Uneraser(DOS) are really powerful data recovery
tools. They always worked for me before and never ever failed. You
should definately try it out, that should help, as it did for me.

http://www.active-undelete.com/

http://www.uneraser.com/

 

[don]

That is correct, however being marked as deleted means that it is free to be
written over. the more you use the disk the greater the chance of
overwriting the space previously occupied by the deleted file.

Also if the file was on the root of the drive the likelyhood of it being
gone is increased.