Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
November 18th, 2007, 4:33
Hi,
I was setting up a new wd500gb hdd and had to erase the partition and used wd tools for writing zero's to the drive and accidently did the wrong drive. Ya I know Stupid. Thats what I get for working on this when I'm tired. Anyhow the drive that was zeroed has 5 partions on it. I have tried Active Partition Recovery and it shows it can recover 4 of the partions but the primary partition c isn't showing up as the software has a 4 partition limit. well it is saying the drive does. Since it can image a partition, I am thing of recovering them 1 at a time but not sure if I can drive C back.
is there better software to do a recovery of the partitions and data?
Thanks
November 18th, 2007, 10:10
I was the quick erase used so it did the first & last million sectors.
The drive is a wd 80 GB.
November 18th, 2007, 14:26
I assume that this drive has Windows Data on it?
Have you tried R-Studio on it? They've just released a new verions.
How about Boomerang?
November 18th, 2007, 15:20
Yes it does, there are 6 logical partitions, 1 linux & 1 linux ext on it which appear to be recoverable however I am not seeing the primary partition. I have it hooked up as a single/master on the secondary ide slot on another pc. It was a master drive in the original pc. just removed the master with slave jumper since there is no need for the slave drive.
I have tried 2 apps so far to look at it to see what they could do recovering it.
PDTT Partition Table Doctor shows 6 fat32 logical partitions, 1 linux & 1 linux ext.
Active Partition Recovery shows the 6 fat32 partitions.
I have R-Sudio 4 network edition. will that work?
any ideas on the number of partitions on the drive affecting recovery?
Since there is already a primary c drive on the 2nd pc. would that cause the recovery software to only see the logical partitions on this drive?
November 28th, 2007, 22:34
Active Partition Recovery recovered all the partitions.
used a recent backup of the OS. Very minor data loss from the last backup. ran scandisk in windows and no errors on any partitions.
Lucked out on this one.
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