Re: File Recovery after SP2. Is it possible.

If you can't find your lost data with the tools you have then find another
tool. This one should work
http://www.winternals.com/Products/AdministratorsPak/ It contains and app
called Disk Commander. It is very good. I once accidentally started loading
a Ghost image to the wrong partition on which I had many GBs of important
data. I managed to stop the image load then ran Disk Command and was able to
recover all but only a small number of files. Be forewarned that this is not
a free product.

By the way I don't understand your comment "How can old stuff overwrite
newer stuff? Ohhhhhh." What's that all about????
--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"Warped" <warpdriver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1125453301.802460.15270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I got a utility from the disk manufacturer. The utility says that
> there are no bad sectors on the hard drive. This means, I guess, that
> it is a software problem. Nothing was overwritten. How can old stuff
> overwrite newer stuff?Ohhhhhh.
>
> Warped
>
> Harry Ohrn wrote:
>> Files are retained on a drive until they are over written. So it is not
>> unusual to find remnants of files from a very long time ago. In your case
>> it
>> sounds like your hard drive has bad sectors. Some of the drive is
>> readable
>> and parts aren't. If that is so there is virtually no way to recover
>> files
>> that might be on the damaged sectors.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
>> www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
>>
>>
>> "Warped" <warpdriver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1125441275.998238.47250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >I don't know if this is the right group to ask this, but here goes.
>> >
>> > My hard drive crashed. Dead. Cannot even view it after I installed a
>> > second hard drive. I think boot.ini is corrupted. I tried a number a
>> > recovery programs including Easy Recovery Professional which saw the
>> > dead hard drive.
>> >
>> > There are two problems.
>> >
>> > Problem NO. 1: The hard drive has two partitions. I could recover some
>> > files on the first partition (C) but very little on the second
>> > partition (D). I am having a real problem getting into the second
>> > partition. Most recovery programs do not see the second partition and
>> > if they do, they cannot read the second partition.
>> >
>> > Problem No. 2: It seems that most of the files I recovered are files
>> > from more than a year or so ago. I am beginning to suspect that the
>> > problem lies with files created after I installed SP2. I cannot
>> > recover files created after SP2 was installed.
>> >
>> > Can anybody help me.
>> >
>> > Warped
>> >
>


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