i was making a mirror of my data drive, which has EVERYTHING on it. it was taking forever, and about 2 hours into it i restarted my computer for some other reason, forgetting that it was "resynching." after it restarted, i remembered and went into "manage" to see what happened to the mirror. it said it was resynching, but didnt have any progress change after almost an hour. i told it to delete the partition i was mirroring to, figuring it would leave the original and i could do it again. instead, it deleted both partitions and ive lost everything ive ever had. now i need a good recovery program to get everything back. is there anything free that works well? does anyone have any other suggestions for recovering this stuff? thanks.
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I just effed up hard, NEED HELP!
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ok so all these programs im finding ask me to point to a drive, but it completely deleted the partition, so its currently "unallocated." should i format it as a new simple volume and then run the recovery software, or is there a way to scan the unformatted disk? i just dont want to format it because that seems like it could make things worse.
Dangman
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Try GetDataBack and see if it works.
Oh and I hope you have backups.
Oh and I hope you have backups.
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formatting will most certainly make things worse. You should be able to just point to a physcial drive in the software and have it start scanning for lost filesystems. If you can't, then that software isn't what you need.
well since its a partitioned 1tb drive, it makes me choose a partition. thats why im asking if anyone knows any good programs that can look in non-formatted drives, an find stuff thats not been deleted, but has just been completely ignored by the computer. its all still there, but i dont know how to get it. :/
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GetDataBack should be able to search an unformatted drive for lost filesystems (i.e partitions)
ok thanks. ill try that when recuva is done. i told it to search everything everywhere, and it sorta promising so far. it searched my two empty 1tb drives in about 10 min each, and now it says its gonna be 4 hours to search this last drive. it did have about 500 gigs of stuff on it that got deleted, so hopefully thats whats making it take so long. it could also just be the C partition that is like 25 gigs, but it doesnt seem like that would take 4 hours.
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getdataback is saying my drive A door may be open and telling me to check it to make sure its closed. i font have a drive A. i dont use floppys. now the program is freezing itself. any suggestions?
ok i just clicked cancel, twice, and it seemed to get over that and move on. the program did detect the partition, even though its unallocated, and its running a recovery on that right now. 2:45 remaining. ill update when its done. thanks a shit-ton guys, i was really worried. still am actually. :/
ok i just clicked cancel, twice, and it seemed to get over that and move on. the program did detect the partition, even though its unallocated, and its running a recovery on that right now. 2:45 remaining. ill update when its done. thanks a shit-ton guys, i was really worried. still am actually. :/
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make sure there's not a floppy drive set in your bios.
ah ok. ill check no that next time i restart m computer. its never given me a problem before but i might as well toggle it off for future convenience.
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Try active partition recovery first
Then getdataback
Then getdataback
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It just restores the partition table so windows can read the disk.
well it found everything. and now it wants $80 to let me have it. thanks for mentioning that little tidbit when i installed your software getdataback! so there arent any free programs available? is active partition recovery free? i dont want to have to pay $80, especially since the drive that got me into this whole mess only cost me $57 to begin with!
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According to the Active@ Partition Recovery website it starts at $35.95.
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Most recovery software that is any good will cost you $$
Is you data seriously not worth $80? Remember thats what you are recovering, not the drive.
Or better yet is your time getting all that stuff back by using other means not worth $80?
Cost of the drive should have no bearing on a decision like this,
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+1 My data is worth a HELL of alot more then $80...
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You might want that tax information.
Hope you dont get Audited
Hope you dont get Audited
thx, really needed that.
yeah i dont care about the tax info. im a student and make less than $10k a year, more like 5. im not getting audited.
I've used GetDataBack on numerous occasions. Every time it has worked 100% for me.
Just make sure you don't format or write to the hard drive... hook it up to any system as a storage drive (meaning don't install an OS on it or touch it in any way), then run GetDataBack and under no circumstance should you interrupt the process.
I'm sending you a PM...