Hey guys, I have an external 1tb drive which was connected to my computer while I was attempting to install xp.. Every time i've reformatted in the past, the main drive has always been first on the partition list, well... not this time. I wasn't paying enough attention and ended up deleting the partition of my 1tb drive instead of my main drive. I had lots of important stuff on there.. How do I get it back? I looked at a few recovery programs, but I'm just afraid that they wont be able to recover some of my file types.. Any suggestions? thanks.
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Been a while since I last had to try and recover files like that I don't remember what program I used before that worked excellent. sorry
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Here are 2 programs that I use and recommend:
PC Inspector File Recovery It's FREE as in FREE BEER and works excellently.
GetDataBack It costs about $80 and you have to buy a version for each type of File System you want to recover data from.
Since discovering and using PC Inspector File Recovery, I haven't had to use GetDataBack.
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I can also recommend TestDisk:Originally posted by Dr. Zhivago View Post
*Microsoft, developing tools for the clueless masses so that they may
maintain that delightful state of cluelessness.Comment
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I did the same thing about a week ago. I wanted to delete a partition and clicked yes too fast. I took out about 5 partitions at once. Oops.Originally posted by mlau View Post
TestDisk fixed it. It's not very friendly, but it does work. I wasn't able to get one partition back, but I got most of my important files.Godtier Gaming News: Twitter / www.godtiergaming.comComment
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Does it only recover certain file types? I checked one program and it said it did like 300 different file types, but there were some like.CR2 that it didn't list and I want to make sure I get at least 98% of my stuff back..Originally posted by acidosmosis View PostComment
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TestDisk just allows you to restore the partition information. It is NOT a traditional Data recovery program and it is is command line only. If you feel comfortable editing partition table information, it is a good program for that. Did you check out the programs I recommended?Comment
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I just downloaded PC inspector so I'll see how that works.. I'm not comfortable using any sort of command line program..Originally posted by Dr. Zhivago View PostComment
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Cool. Let us know how it works out.Comment
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It is kind of confusing, but it's not "command line". It has a menu like any other program. They are just DOS menus.Originally posted by phexus View PostGodtier Gaming News: Twitter / www.godtiergaming.comComment
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I've used WinHex to wipe disks before, and it can recover tons of stuff from a one or two pass wipe, so I'd guess it work pretty well on just a deleted partition.
Acronis Disk Suite has a "partition recovery" option, but I've thankfully never had cause to try to use it.Originally posted by JohnEJohn
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Active Partition Recovery work pretty well on my pretty much fudged up raid 0 meltdown
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This program worked great!! I'm so happy, thanks.. got everything back the way it was.Originally posted by mlau View PostComment
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I hadn't looked at TestDisk since around 2001. It's come a long way since then. I figured it was the same old program. I didn't realize it had been deveolped so much further.
Good stuff!
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this program is awesome.Originally posted by Arc_Angel View Post
very quick and rewrote the MBR perfectly.Comment
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