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Mickwish · March 10th, 2004, 05:17 PM

First thing, don't do anything to that drive yet!!

If you want to recover the data, don't play with it anymore.

Most data will be recoverable easily, except where windows was installed (the first 3 gigs), as overwritten data is very hard to recover.

What you need is an app that will recover from partitioning. There are some good ones out there, but only a couple of freebies that will be much good (and they are limited in what they can do). So it sorta depends on how valuable the data is to you, as to whether or not you want to spend money to fix it.

PM will not help recover the data, so don';t use it yet!!

So, first question: are you desperate enough to shell out 50 bucks or so?

Oh, and Welcome to TechIMO!!

Cheers
Mick

March 10th, 2004, 05:17 PM	#3 (permalink)
Mickwish Swine flu stopper Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: BrisVegas, Australia Posts: 11,467 Blog Entries: 1	First thing, don't do anything to that drive yet!! If you want to recover the data, don't play with it anymore. Most data will be recoverable easily, except where windows was installed (the first 3 gigs), as overwritten data is very hard to recover. What you need is an app that will recover from partitioning. There are some good ones out there, but only a couple of freebies that will be much good (and they are limited in what they can do). So it sorta depends on how valuable the data is to you, as to whether or not you want to spend money to fix it. PM will not help recover the data, so don';t use it yet!! So, first question: are you desperate enough to shell out 50 bucks or so? Oh, and Welcome to TechIMO!! Cheers Mick __________________ I don't like sigs on forums like this.