Pelle_Haukali Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 This is the situation: I have a harddrive with two partitions, one for windows and one for my data. Somehow, I think by a virus, the data-partition gave out on me and failed to communicate with windows, and I thought i'd lost all my data - I'm still not sure I haven't. This data is really, ultra-important to me, vital to me finishing school, so I'd appreciate your help! I know i'm. I know, it's stupid of me not to have backed it up, but I assure you: I won't make that mistake again! Please help, i'm at your mercy!!!After fiddling with the MBR and re-installing the windows partition, I can now see the data partition, but it appears blank: Capacity 0/0 bytes, no filesystem no nothing. Which leaves me assuming the drive is unformatted. However (and here's the upside keeping me going): When I booted @Active Partition Recovery, I was able to restore the MBR and preview the data drive - I could see the entire filesystem! I could browse through all of my old files and folders, so I'm sure it's there - somewhere! My question is: How do I make Windows access this drive? I hope i'm -this- close to solving the problem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korgg Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 I found once that Scandisk may deal with this... But I stronglly do not recommmed this..IF you were familliar to Linux, then this would have been a little more easy...Now what you have to do is to define that partition again... You have to say where it starts and where it ends... Now when you partition a hdd with the ntfs file-system it always remains 8 MB un-allocated at the end of the disk... that should not be a problem .. And the real pain is that i do not know a Windows program that can do that without formatting (and that destroys data)...To give you a hint on how a partition table looks like here's mine: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System/dev/hdb1 * 1 2351 18884376 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 2352 2550 1598467+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb3 2551 9728 57657285 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)/dev/hdb5 2551 6374 30716248+ 83 Linux/dev/hdb6 6375 9728 26940973+ 83 LinuxBe right Back ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korgg Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 Here's a solution : click meAnd another one: click me moreThey describe quite the same thing...in case you missed this part: Important installation note: Do not install GetDataBack on the drive you want to recover! It is strongly recommended to proceed as follows: Install the program to another computer, which doesn't' t have any problems. If you have a choice, choose the computer which has the most RAM and is the fastest. Attach the drive you want to recover as a slave to this machine. Make sure the drive is jumpered correctly and is recognized by the BIOS. After downloading GetDataBack run the setup.exe. The setup wizard will guide you through the installation process. And another program here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodchip Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 This what you need to Recover a Partition, as you went down the wrong root by reinstalling XP. I have used the Program on two Computers with full success, but I did not do what you did So I cannot guarantee it will work. Make sure you download the correct one for your File System NTFS or Fat32http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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