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ok, here's my situation.
i've been using and older win xp based system for a while. my primary drives were a 300 gb C and a 320 gb data drive. i got my hands on a 1TB drive and had to exchange it to my dad for the 300 C drive (leaving me with a 1TB drive and a 320 gb data).
well i reinstalled windows xp (without SP1 or anything) and of course it wouldnt let me format the entire 1TB drive as a C. well being an idiot, i accidently deleted the parition for the D drive. i installed windows XP on the 1TB drive, ran windows update a bunch of times and used parition magic to extend the 128 gb C: into 930 gigs.
when i deleted the partition for the D drive, i accidently re-labeled the partition, and beacuse its an old version of XP, it was 128 gb, not the 300 gb it should be. i have yet format the data drive, but i have relabeled the partion a couple of times (like... 2-3?). other then the partition tables, nothing about/regarding the drive has been touched. no files have been written to it.
so now im trying to recover those lost files. this is where i need the help.
Im using a program called "test-disk" to try and recover the files. when i used the actual test disk program and analyzed the partitions, i couldnt find the old partitions.
Now, im trying the companion program, photorec and it seems to have found 50 out of the 200 ish gigs that were on the drive. however, all the files seems to be the addresses of the files, like f3089899.mp3. but at the same time, all the files, individully, are roughly 4kb or something. it as yet to recover any .avi, .doc or .iso (which i know i had quite a few...), although quite a few .txts, which i had maybe 2-3 of. seeing this, i dont think photo rec is going to save my drive.
does anyone know of any free apps that can help me in my situation? i didnt actually delete anything. something tells me im not using testdisk correctly, but i dont know what im doing differently from the website. if there are any paid solutions, i would be more then willingly to try, but preferably free.
i've been using and older win xp based system for a while. my primary drives were a 300 gb C and a 320 gb data drive. i got my hands on a 1TB drive and had to exchange it to my dad for the 300 C drive (leaving me with a 1TB drive and a 320 gb data).
well i reinstalled windows xp (without SP1 or anything) and of course it wouldnt let me format the entire 1TB drive as a C. well being an idiot, i accidently deleted the parition for the D drive. i installed windows XP on the 1TB drive, ran windows update a bunch of times and used parition magic to extend the 128 gb C: into 930 gigs.
when i deleted the partition for the D drive, i accidently re-labeled the partition, and beacuse its an old version of XP, it was 128 gb, not the 300 gb it should be. i have yet format the data drive, but i have relabeled the partion a couple of times (like... 2-3?). other then the partition tables, nothing about/regarding the drive has been touched. no files have been written to it.
so now im trying to recover those lost files. this is where i need the help.
Im using a program called "test-disk" to try and recover the files. when i used the actual test disk program and analyzed the partitions, i couldnt find the old partitions.
Now, im trying the companion program, photorec and it seems to have found 50 out of the 200 ish gigs that were on the drive. however, all the files seems to be the addresses of the files, like f3089899.mp3. but at the same time, all the files, individully, are roughly 4kb or something. it as yet to recover any .avi, .doc or .iso (which i know i had quite a few...), although quite a few .txts, which i had maybe 2-3 of. seeing this, i dont think photo rec is going to save my drive.
does anyone know of any free apps that can help me in my situation? i didnt actually delete anything. something tells me im not using testdisk correctly, but i dont know what im doing differently from the website. if there are any paid solutions, i would be more then willingly to try, but preferably free.