Partition & Drive Recovery

[deadcrickets]

Ok, here's the deal. Second time in two months (two different computers) a drive has become "lost" to a Vista 64 installation. For some reason Vista would freeze on shutdown and still be stuck hours later. You reboot and boom! No drive. Never had this problem under Sabayon nor under XP.

Last time around I reformatted. This time I want to recover the data as it took out a storage drive. What would you suggest?

 

[Monkey34]

If all you want to do is save the data, download ZARhttp://www.z-a-recovery.com/download.htm
and save it. The trial lets you save 4 folders at a time, but the weekend special is for $30...and you can do it all in one shot.

 

[deadcrickets]

I'll check into it. Right now the drive is showing as a RAW system. Under hex the data is still there. I'd prefer of course just to restore the file table. Can't seem to do it under Linux. I'm assuming due to the changes in NTFS with Vista.

 

[deadcrickets]

Definitely not going to work. I need something to recover the file table in place. This is, as I said, the storage drive. There is simply no room on the boot drive to "copy" everything over. That defeats the purpose for me and puts me back at square one. My boot drive is a mere 74g raptor. The storage drive is 400gb. Almost full as well.

 

[deadcrickets]

Someone recommended Active Partition Recovery. Going to give that a go and let you know.

 

[Monkey34]

Check out SuperGrubDisk, it might do something for you.

SGD is often useful. Here there are examples:

* GNU/Linux is installed in your pc, you reinstall Windows and GNU/Linux no longer boots as Grub menu no longer appears on boot. You can restore Grub on your MBR automatically.
* You have Windows installed in a second hard disk and it does not want to boot. If you swap it from Super Grub Disk you will be able to boot it.
* You can not boot Windows because your MBR is corrupt or Grub installation is not well done or whatever. With Super Grub Disk you will be able to boot the partition where Windows reside.
* No Active Partition Found message appears. With Super Grub Disk you can activate partitions.

 

[deadcrickets]

Active Partition Recovery worked. I had to delete the damaged partition and run a Super Scan then pressed Recover. Worked perfectly.

The other programs I'll be noting for further use. Thank you both.