Re: partition recovery

Hmmmm. Best to consult with the various recovery firms out there. You will probably be able to recover your data using one of the many software solutions available out there. Most have a trial version that can show what it might be able to recover. I can't reccomend any in particular but most partition recovery utilites in the $50-$100 range should be able to fully recover the data. My hunch is that the MBR or boot sector might be corrupt, an easy thing to fix or get around but best not to chance things with valuable data. These might be starting points in your quest:

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/art-partition-recovery.htm
http://www.uneraser.com/partitionrecoveryconcepts.htm

John

_steppingstone wrote:

no backup

On Nov 15, 9:27 am, John John <audetw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Did you have a backup?

John

_steppingstone wrote:

I added a new D hard drive yesterday and reinstalled windows xp sp2.
Now the partition seem to be messed up on my F drive. It has 300 gigs
of data on it. Bios recognizes it but windows explorer doesn't show it.
I started norton disk doctor and it's looking for partitions, but it is
gonna take a month. disk management in explorer says that the drive is
there but unallocated. I had it set as a ntfs drive.

does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? or do it faster than a
month?

thanks



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