Need data recovery help

[CyberSlave]

I reformated my OS and wiped 3 of my drives (OS drive incl).

Now the 2 drives I did no wipe are not showing their data.

In the Disk manager it says the space is unallocated. Why?

I never formatted the 2 drives.

I would realy like to find a way to try and get some of the data back, Its close to 100 gigs between the 2 drives.

Please help.

 

[unhappy_mage]

sux to be u.
try a dos boot disk and see if fdisk sees anything. other than that i'd say professional data recovery is your only hope. expensive.

 

[CyberSlave]

thanks

 

[Ice Czar]

the data is all still there, the worse case senerio is the the partition table is hosed
I suspect you deleted a Primary Partition that had the other partitions (actually logical drives) where in an extended partition dependent on the Primary you got rid of, thus there is no chain pointing to it

you might have some corruption in spots, but its there to recover or possibly repair

DIY Data Recovery Disk Patch can rebuild partition Tables from scratch $40
Quetek File Scavenger is a direct Sector by Sector Scanner and would allow you to write the data to another drive $40

these are NTFS?
reference > http://www.ntfs.com/
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=766702

 

[CyberSlave]

got GetDataBack adn am trying it on one of the drives.

Hope it works

 

[CyberSlave]

well I got my files off one drive.

Now to check the other.

 

[Ice Czar]

thats a good sign

review that 2nd reference link so you can avoid partitioning pitfalls in the future
like the difference bewteen a system partition and a boot partition in a dual boot
and exactly what a Primary, Extended and Logical Partition is.

 

[CyberSlave]

true.

Thanks.