Need help getting data back

[thefourthwall]

Hello,

After searching the forum, I have yet to find this problem already dealt with; more likely than not I didn't search well enough.

While using the Lexar USB utility to make XP see a flash drive as 'fixed' rather than 'removeable,' I accidentally performed that operation on one of my internal 80GB drives and now it shows in disk management as 'unallocated.'

Unfortunately I have data that would be useful to recover on that drive; any thoughts on how to best 'get the data back' assuming it's not really lost?

I am assuming that I messed up the partition table or MFT. Partition Magic 8 sees the same thing as disk management and google has not been so helpful as desired.

Thanks for your help...

 

[goombawaho]

GetDataBack for NTFS or FAT32 depending on the file system.

Put the drive in as a slave in another system, install the free version of the program and don't write any data to the drive (if you don't want to lose any data).

Then you can see if you can see your data on that drive with the software. If so, purchase the license. It's a great product. I've (re)covered my posterior several times.

 

[fisheromacse]

you could try a program like Free Undelete or Partition Recovery. I have used both with varying degrees of success.
There are a number of others available on the 1st link.

Here are a couple of links too:

http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?id=38

http://www.diskinternals.com/partition-recovery/

http://ntfsundelete.com/

http://www.officerecovery.com/

 

[linney]

Have you got a Floppy drive or can you adapt these instructions to rebuild the partition table?


"Go to

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm

look for MBRWORK in the free tolls and download
it, put it on a DOS floppy (one made by formatting in XP and taking the MSDOS Startup disk option will do).

Boot that and run MBRWORK
Use options
1 (to back up the current state, so it could be restored with 2)
3 then 4 to delete the current code and tables
there will then be a possibility of using
A
which will scan the disk for 'signatures' of partitions and rebuilt the
partition table then
5
to install standard MBR code so the disk could be booted"


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)






Data recovery.

The first link is freeware, the others are free to try before purchase. The last two are a slightly better product in my opinion.

PC Inspector

http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?language=1

GetDataBack

http://www.runtime.org/hints.htm

Data Recovery tools for Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista/Windows 7

http://www.restorer-ultimate.com