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 Post subject: How do I recover data from lost/deleted partitions? NTFS FAT
PostPosted: November 12th, 2008, 3:00 
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Hello

Looking for a program to recover my data.

My old partition schema entailed the following file-systems;

NTFS
Ext3
FAT32
HFS+

Although I didn't have anything of value on the ext3 partition, so don't worry about finding a software that can recover ext3. Most important is NTFS. Seconded by HFS+.

I've seen a whole spectrum of software's, and tried a few of them.

Winternals Disk Commander 1.1

Media Tools 5.1 Professional - http://www.prosofteng.com/products/media_tools_pro.php

But neither seem to be able to do exactly what I want. Biggest issue is that neither can write to NTFS.

Also tried TestDisk... but can't seem to work out how to use it.

Please help me recover my deleted partitions.

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

PS: If you were wondering how they got deleted, blame the new ubuntu installation.


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 Post subject: Re: How do I recover data from lost/deleted partitions? NTFS FAT
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 Post subject: Re: How do I recover data from lost/deleted partitions? NTFS FAT
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Can that be booted from a CD?


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 Post subject: Re: How do I recover data from lost/deleted partitions? NTFS FAT
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 Post subject: Re: How do I recover data from lost/deleted partitions? NTFS FAT
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Huh?

What does that stand for?


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 Post subject: Re: How do I recover data from lost/deleted partitions? NTFS FAT
PostPosted: November 12th, 2008, 8:31 
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Before you do anything, make a sector level backup of the drive.

You are playing with dangerous toys. :)

If you have Media Tools, just use that. Afterwards, I'd probably try Testdisk first. SysrescueCD has a recent release of Testdisk as part of its release, at the very least the "experimental" build of their release.

R-studio will see both NTFS and HFS+ and so will UFS Explorer. Your priority should be to preserve the current state of the drive before things get worse, and they likely will.


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 Post subject: Re: How do I recover data from lost/deleted partitions? NTFS FAT
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No, R-Studio needs to be installed ON ANOTHER SYSTEM DRIVE, and accessing your poorly drive as a secondary drive, or through USB/Firewire.

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 Post subject: Re: How do I recover data from lost/deleted partitions? NTFS FAT
PostPosted: November 13th, 2008, 0:34 
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wiseleo wrote:
Before you do anything, make a sector level backup of the drive.

You are playing with dangerous toys. :)

If you have Media Tools, just use that. Afterwards, I'd probably try Testdisk first. SysrescueCD has a recent release of Testdisk as part of its release, at the very least the "experimental" build of their release.

R-studio will see both NTFS and HFS+ and so will UFS Explorer. Your priority should be to preserve the current state of the drive before things get worse, and they likely will.


Hehehe... dangerous, eh?

I couldn't work out how to use TestDisk. (from Parted Magic LiveCD)

Comp stuffed up when trying to install XP on my other drive...

Panarchy


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