Wow. TestDist/PartedMagic found the partitions and restored them in about 30 seconds. Everything working just fine now, thanks for the referral.
//_ Patrick Kilgore | Truman State University | [email protected] - [email protected] | 314.803.0842 On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Patrick Kilgore <[email protected] > wrote: > Thanks Huan, I'll give testdisk/partedmagic a try and let you know how it > works. Seems to be what I'm looking for. > > //_ > Patrick Kilgore | Truman State University | [email protected] - > [email protected] | 314.803.0842 > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Huan Truong <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Patrick, >> >> I'd recommend you to try TestDisk, which is a very powerful software, >> which comes with Parted Magic ( http://partedmagic.com/ ). It never ever >> disappointed me (PhotoRec is its cousin -- I haven't try to use PhotoRec on >> a HDD, but it worked for me on a 2GB memory card). >> >> In case you're unsuccessful with it, mail me privately for GetDataBack >> NTFS. I haven't tried it for a long time because I already had TestDisk, but >> before I discovered TestDisk GetDataBack did the work for me. >> >> - Huan T. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 28, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Patrick Kilgore wrote: >> >> So. Long story short, I managed to break my primary windows hard drive's >>> partition tables and render most of the data on it inaccessible. The problem >>> is, there are some rather important documents and irreplaceable photographs >>> on the drive that I haven't backed up yet, and I need help in recovering >>> that data. I'm currently running Ubuntu off a spare HD so no worries about >>> installing software and overwriting data on the original drive. >>> >>> Here are my questions: >>> (1) Are there any F/OS linux utilities that I can use to recover data off >>> the drive? It's an ntfs-3g drive. A utility that can repair partition tables >>> may also work, but I don't understand how partition tables work so I don't >>> know if this is possible. >>> (2) If nobody is aware of an open source alternative - Has anyone >>> currently in Kirksville previously purchased commercial data recovery >>> software that I can borrow for a weekend? It can be linux/windows. >>> (3) In the case that the first two are not feasible, does anyone have any >>> reccomendations for commercial data recovery software? >>> >>> >>> Thanks for the help, >>> //_ >>> Patrick Kilgore | Truman State University | [email protected] - >>> [email protected] | 314.803.0842 >>> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> To get off this list, send email to [email protected] >> with Subject: unsubscribe >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >
