ALL hard drive turned "gibberish", please help to recover.

[germann.n@gmail.com]

Dear folks,

I really need your help. One of the three IDE hard drives installed on my P4 Dell desktop machine (Win XP Pro) turned totally "gibberish". Nothing readable - some recent very important files were not backed up.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the precise moment it happened but I do note here that around that time three things happened. i) I tried to replace this disk with a new one (Maxtor 250G), which turned out to be out of order. ii) my PC was infected with a couple of viruses. iii) I updated BIOS on my motherboard since I assumed that it will let the system read the new 250GB disk.

I have copied the whole partition to a brand new working hard drive but it looks on it precisely the same.

I'm attaching the screen shot of how that "gibberish" looks (in total commander).

I appreciate any help.
German

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[evajones]

Hi

Try to use Stellar Phoenix windows recovery software, i tried and found very good.I recommend you to use this s/w.
The URL of the site is http://www.stellarinfo.com

Regards,
Eva Jones

[pcimage]

Any decent DR software should be able to handle this.

E.g. Getdatback, RStudio etc.

[hddguy]

Thats what happens when you use Fat32.....


I agree wiht PCimage, best option is probably GetDataBAck. Better results, neater structure, relatively easy to use.

[cgallery]

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