partition recovery?

[utekineir]

I recently bought the program naslite to setup a storage server on an unused box.

So far i havent even been able to get the program to load yet, regardless of whatever i try. The farthest i got was to a usb flash utility when booting off a cd i had burned . I had all my drives plugged in because i thought the actual program was going to start.

What ended up happening is the goddamn program formatted and partitioned my 500 gig external drive with all my backups and media on it, instead of my flash drive. So now my 500 gig drive is a 8 meg partition....

Needless to say i'm pretty damn upset.

Anyone know of a good program / method for recovering the lost partition and restoring my files? I just purchased a 2nd 500 gig external drive so copying the files over wont be an issue. This one was about full anyways, so it was time for another.

any input would be greatly appreciated, this whole situation has me pretty pissed,

thanks

 

[gjvrieze]

I have had very very good luck with Recover My Files on flash media, never tried mechanical media yet, but they have a free trial which will show what it can recover, but you have to pay to recover.....give it a try....

 

[terrytree]

Hello,
Your can download the trial version of Partition Table Doctor to see whether it can recovery your file. If they can be seen, then you then pay to buy a license.

I have another friend tried that program, and it works great.

Hope it can help you.

 

[delemorte]

I use file scavanger with alot of succses as well as ERD commander.

 

[IanG]

I've used 'drive rescue' way back in the day. It worked great on fat drives, not sure how it handles ntfs though.

 

[digital_exhaust]

GetDataBack works well. Give it a shot.