Re: I've lost half the files off my flatmates hard drive

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Use www.ontrack.com or a similar company. They aren't cheap.

If the lost file are BS files (downloaded music and videos) you may want to
forgo this expense. If, on the other hand, what is lost includes the last
pictures of Grandma and Grandpa before they passed away, the expense may be
well worth it.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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<haydenpie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Due to issues I was having with my pc refusing to boot up, I decided
(rather foolishly looking back...) to put my hard drive in to my
flatmates pc to salvage some of my files before I reinstalled xp.

All went well, until I moved the hard drive and the IDE cable touched
the CPU fan, which stopped, the computer started beeping and then shut
down...

I removed my HDD and restarted the pc only for it to tell me NTLDR is
missing. I tried the fixmbr and whatnot thru the xp setup disc, to no
avail.

Once my pc was back up and running I connected my flatmates HDD To my
pc only to find that there were no files on it whatsoever....

I downloaded and ran two different data recovery programs, both of
which got pretty much the same results, which is about half of his
files....

My question is, is there any way to recover the rest of the files? Is
there a quick fix way to reinstate something to make it all honky dory
again or have I buggered it good and proper? As you can imagine my name
is mud right now....



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