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..
