Please help me recover files from a 300 GB Seagate HDD

[jdmbo1]

Hello,
Some Background on the HDD and problem:

I recently had Windows Vista installed on my Computer. I had 2 HDD's hooked up, a Maxtor 320 GB and a Seagate 300 GB. My Seagate HDD was partitioned in 2, drive letters D: and G:. D has all my important files, e.g. school, etc. and my G drive had all my music. My computer was getting slow, so I decided to downgrade to Windows XP. After installing Windows XP Home Edition, I noticed that it didn't read my Seagate HDD. I searched Google, and found that in Vista, my HDD was turned in a Dynamic Drive. I checked the Computer Management program under XP and it seems that the Seagate was working, just recognized as Foreign and Dynamic, the only option it gave me was to convert it back to basic, I couldn't import it. I decided, to get back my files, I would reinstall Vista, copy the important files to my Maxtor, then format my Seagate. During the installation process, the power cut off my house, the computer loaded back up but I got the Blue Screen of death during the installation process. During this time I ran across this website,
http://thelazyadmin.com/blogs/thelazyadmin/archive/2007/01/17/Converting-Dynamic-Disks-Back-to-Basic-Disks.aspx,
and decided to give it a go. So I reinstalled XP, but something was weird, during the installation phase, where you choose which drive you want to install XP into, all my partitions for my Maxtor showed up, but only the D: partition of my Seagate showed up, my G: partition was missing. I finish the installation anyways, followed the step on that website, and it worked, bu only my D drive showed up. My G drive was completely missing. I checked under the Computer Management program again, and the drive was recognized, and showed up as a Primary Partition with 280 gigs. When I right click it to see the properites however, it only shows up as max capacity 27.9 gigs, which make sense, I partitioned D off with 30 GB, and the rest went to the G drive, but for some reasons, it seems the remaining 270 gigs was missing. I downloaded Diskinternals Partition Recovery program and started it up, and this is what it shows;
http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b167/jdmbo1/?action=view&current=hdd.jpg

The G drive showed up! I ran the program, it found all my files, but I have to pay $150 for the software, and I can't afford that. I looked around for alternative software that was free, but none of them showed the G drive like the Diskinteral program.

Sorry for this long post, I thought it would be better to post everything I did, so if people wanted to scrutinize it and tell me what I did wrong, they could. I desperately need the G drive back, can someone please point me into the direction of a free program or at least moderately priced one that can get this job done. If possible, post steps too (I have no clue when it comes to anything that has to deal with HDDs).

Thanks in advance
-Son

[jdmbo1]

Here's the partition table for my HDD, it says "Invalid Partition Table, error loading operating system" if that helps

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b167/jdmbo1/paritiontable.jpg

[beto]

Hello that error wich u are showing , its not an error its the normal code on MBR hex code, assembly code, and the another where show error partition... its the Ascii string´s need it on the MBR code


Best Regards

[pepe]

Hello,

As I see there's a big mess now on your drives.
It is really hard to give advice it U don't cling to sacrifice some $$$ for some SW or a pro.
When U go to a shop to buy bread U have to pay, when U go to the doctor U have to pay, etc.
So do the makers of the programs have to pay for their life, so it is not a crime to ask some $$$ for the work they do.
U can learn programming and the file systems, then U can write a program to recover your files, I am sure this would be definitely more expensive than to buy a prog for 150.
Sorry to say this.

pepe

[dick]

If money is the main issue for you but you still want your files then try this programme.
If you see the files with the trial you can then buy it and get a license number.
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/

They have got the weekend discount offer going so it will only cost you $29.95(US)

Sorry but if you don't want to pay that small amount then your files are not worth recovering!

[Data Recovery Alex]

I need to learn from you guys high hand !

Come on !!! Lol........