Re: Deleted Partition - Must recover all files

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"The Guru" <spambucket@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 26 May, 04:05, Deuce <D...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The situation: Was installing XP on older PC, in order to use it with
big
screen TV. Had 500Gig external drive connected thru USB and accidentally
asked the machine to delete the system partition for the external drive
instead of the partition for the system drive. Fixed the problem for the
internal PC HD. Lost ALL connection to the external USB drive.
I had transferred close to 80Gig offilesto external drive and now I have
no access to them.
Path Forward...so far: D'led "GetBackData" and assigned a drive letter
to
the external drive. No formatting was done and GBD seems to see thefiles
(all 6000 of them but the scan is taking DAYS...every time my PC shuts
down
or loses power, the program re-starts. I need to know the best way to
"re-connect" with all thefiles. If there is a quick fix or a better way
PLEASE help ASAP.

Thanks in advance,
D


I haven't come across "GetBackData", but Partition Recovery (http://
www.diskinternals.co.uk/partition-recovery.html) is very good at
recovering files from deleted partitions, and it normally only takes a
couple of hours.

The reason it's slow is probably because it is an external drive,
accessed via USB. It would probably speed things up to put the drive
into the PC as a slave.

That would absolutely be the case if the port or drive is below USB2. The
speed (and hence, time) difference is in the range of 40x. If the system
only has USB 1 ports, install a USB 2 card; these are cheap and no drivers
are required.

-pk


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