I've got a seagate 160gb IDE There really isn't anything wrong with the drive, I could reformat and start over but there's about 60gb of music and some er...importand 'files' I'd like to keep. I was resizing a partition (using partition magic) and got some "error" I instinctively clicked ok/next/whatever so I could go on with my day I restarted, drive doesn't show up anywhere, some weird MS hard drive disk integrity checking on boot tries to run each time Any way I can recover this with hopefully free software? I've tried "stellar phoenix (BSD)" and it doesn't really solve my problem just tells me that my drive is corrupted. would I have a better chance popping in a linux live cd?
i believe R-Studio version 3.0 is a recovery utility that is free to try you just can't recover stuff over 64kb (probably small word documents and such) I have it, b/c i formatted my drive and then remembered there was stuff i did need like the last 4 years of college work EEEK.. Yeah i bought it, 50 bucks well worth it. I recovered everything except some digital photos. Oh wells. Check it out here http://www.data-recovery-software.net/
When your 36 page senior thesis is on the drive that was formatted, you'd be willing to pay 50 bucks and kill someone for it! Luckily.........i only had to pay..
All I can suggest is booting into DOS using a boot disk and entering the command: chkdsk /f Can you explain the boot process as it is now? What exactly happens when Windows tries to load?
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