I had our home movies stored on that drive along with the backup of our pictures .crw files. I was trying to copy the files from the current drive to the new external backup drive I bought when I started getting CRC errors. I then did a check disk on the drive (which was just a partition of another drive) and had it auto fix problems. It found tons and after it ran I no longer had a partition (I love windows). I need to restore the partition or have a sw program try and recover the files that were on the partition. I haven't done anything with the area on that drive to keep from writing over stuff that might have been there. Computer Management console shows the drive as unformatted so I know it is still there. I don't mind paying for the best sw, but nothing seems to be suited for partition recovery. Any ideas? So far it has been my experience that free recovery sw isn't fantastic, but I'm up for trying them.
Running XP pro, 160 GB HD divided into 3 partitions. the first partition is 130 GB and is the one I need to restore.
The restore feature in Windows does not restore partitions, you are correct.
Unfortunately you left out some important details about your system that would be helpful to recommending a solution. I don't know exactly what to recommend but maybe you might try to use "Restore" if you're using XP or Vista. If your operating system is older such as 2000 and below I don't think there is a "Restore" feature on these operating systems. Try this first. I jumped from Win-98 to XP and Vista so I cannot recommend on these other OS's. Restore is the simplest and no cost possibility. My guess is that if your partition has changed Restore will not work. So if this doesn't work then you should add to your question more details about your system such as operating system, exact size and model of hard drives.
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Unfortunately you left out some important details about your system that would be helpful to recommending a solution. I don't know exactly what to recommend but maybe you might try to use "Restore" if you're using XP or Vista. If your operating system is older such as 2000 and below I don't think there is a "Restore" feature on these operating systems. Try this first. I jumped from Win-98 to XP and Vista so I cannot recommend on these other OS's. Restore is the simplest and no cost possibility. My guess is that if your partition has changed Restore will not work. So if this doesn't work then you should add to your question more details about your system such as operating system, exact size and model of hard drives.
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I would say your best bet is to try to recover whatever is recoverable from the bad partition, then reformat the bad partition. You can try to do it yourself, but if the files are irreplaceable I'd say send it to Bactrak Data. They're cheap and they do quality work. For 130 gigs it'll cost about $80 or so.
Good luck.
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http://www.bactrak-data.com/