Partition... gone!

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Hi guys (and gals)...

I'm looking for some help here. My second harddrive is a 160gb Maxtor
drive with an NTFS partition of the same size. Yesterday, for no reason,
when I tried to access it, Windows told me that it wasn't formatted and
asked me if I wanted to format it now. In the properties window, it says
its file system is "RAW". So basically, the partition got corrupted. I
am using Avast anti-virus (updated all the time), and I don't have
spywares or stuff like that. I really don't know what happened.

I tried FixMbr in the recovery console. Didn't work. I then ran
EasyRecovery from OnTrack, but it couldn't do much. It didn't even
detect that the partition was NTFS before. I found a software called
R-Studio. It detected that I had an NTFS partition, but it doesn't seem
to help much...

What should I do now to recover my data? Any good software out there to
reconstruct the NTFS structure and get my stuff back?

I know you can feel it... the pain of losing 160gb of important data!

Thanks!

Carl

 

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Carl Mercier wrote:
>
> Hi guys (and gals)...
>
> I'm looking for some help here. My second harddrive is a 160gb Maxtor
> drive with an NTFS partition of the same size. Yesterday, for no reason,
> when I tried to access it, Windows told me that it wasn't formatted and
> asked me if I wanted to format it now. In the properties window, it says
> its file system is "RAW". So basically, the partition got corrupted. I
> am using Avast anti-virus (updated all the time), and I don't have
> spywares or stuff like that. I really don't know what happened.
>
> I tried FixMbr in the recovery console. Didn't work. I then ran
> EasyRecovery from OnTrack, but it couldn't do much. It didn't even
> detect that the partition was NTFS before. I found a software called
> R-Studio. It detected that I had an NTFS partition, but it doesn't seem
> to help much...
>
> What should I do now to recover my data? Any good software out there to
> reconstruct the NTFS structure and get my stuff back?
>
> I know you can feel it... the pain of losing 160gb of important data!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Carl

Carl,

I'll get this data back for you.

Have a look at my website.

Odie
--

RetroData
Data Recovery Experts
www.retrodata.co.uk

 

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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:35:21 -0400, Carl Mercier
<carl@nospamming.carl-mercier.killspam.dot.com> wrote:

>Hi guys (and gals)...
>
>I'm looking for some help here. My second harddrive is a 160gb Maxtor
>drive with an NTFS partition of the same size. Yesterday, for no reason,
>when I tried to access it, Windows told me that it wasn't formatted and
>asked me if I wanted to format it now. In the properties window, it says
>its file system is "RAW". So basically, the partition got corrupted. I
>am using Avast anti-virus (updated all the time), and I don't have
>spywares or stuff like that. I really don't know what happened.
>
>I tried FixMbr in the recovery console. Didn't work. I then ran
>EasyRecovery from OnTrack, but it couldn't do much. It didn't even
>detect that the partition was NTFS before. I found a software called
>R-Studio. It detected that I had an NTFS partition, but it doesn't seem
>to help much...
>
>What should I do now to recover my data? Any good software out there to
>reconstruct the NTFS structure and get my stuff back?
>
>I know you can feel it... the pain of losing 160gb of important data!
>
>Thanks!
>
>Carl

Which operating system and service pack number is this?

To provide that information and information about the disk sizes and
partition tables as seen by Windows, you can download Findpart at

http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm

do:

findpart tables fp.txt

and insert (not attach) the output file.
--
Svend Olaf

 

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I had a similar problem and successfully used Partition Magic's
Undelete Partition to get the partition back.

 

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This happened to me once, and yet I was able to retrieve my data files. I used
the startup disk, wind up with the a drive, which I changed to whatever drive
you have your data files on ..C? and do a dir /p. It should show u all your
files. Then copy whatever you want to either another hd or drive.