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August 18th, 2006, 01:20 AM
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| | SoMuchAnime-SoLittleTime
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This is just horrible. 
I have loads of very importiant data on one of my drives which was trashed when I tried to install Kubuntu. This should not have happened at all, when I installed Kubuntu was supposed to only make partions on my other primary drive but I guess it didn't.
How can I get my data back? It tells me the drive is corrupt in XP and shows a size of 0 bytes.
Right now I am trying the demo of restorer2000 pro. But I would love any info on good apps that can help.
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August 18th, 2006, 07:08 AM
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Holy crap dude...The only thing i can tell you is to wipe and reformat .
At least you werent one of those idiots who run raid 0 and wonder why data comes up missing  .
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August 18th, 2006, 04:38 PM
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| | SoMuchAnime-SoLittleTime
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Can't do that. My XP install is perfectly fine. And I will not wipe my data drive, everything is still there but XP just doesn't recognize it ATM.
I think I know what happened though now. All I think that needs to be done is just to have it rebuild the partion data for the drive. But how do I do that without wiping out the exisiting data?
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August 18th, 2006, 05:27 PM
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Look into Partition Magic. | |
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August 18th, 2006, 05:31 PM
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August 18th, 2006, 05:33 PM
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your drive tables are all messed up...
shouldve done a backup before you messed with something that could compromise your system.
but, ill take a look and see what i can find, but truth be told, i think your gonna be out of luck. | |
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August 18th, 2006, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by wera Holy crap dude...The only thing i can tell you is to wipe and reformat .
At least you werent one of those idiots who run raid 0 and wonder why data comes up missing . |
i stripe my drives for the os, and games... primarily because i dont care if it goes or not,(never had an issue yet) as all of my data is backed up unto 3 different drive systems plus i have dvd and cdr backups.... im fairly well covered and update the backups often.
Last edited by jokostel : August 18th, 2006 at 05:38 PM.
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August 18th, 2006, 06:19 PM
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| | SoMuchAnime-SoLittleTime
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Tried Partion Magic. It can't even read the partion that is messed up.
They don't have anything better than what I am trying now on major geeks that I could find.
Ya, I know, but it shouldn't have even touched that drive while it was installing.
I am going to start getting back into DVD-RW backups again. I don't have a lot of files that are importiant, and they are small. Mabey I can stuff everything importiant onto my 1GB flash drive from now on...
I am trying out GetDataBack for NTFS. I am sure it will be able to get all my data back, but it will cost $80.  | |
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August 18th, 2006, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by EXreaction Tried Partion Magic. It can't even read the partion that is messed up.
They don't have anything better than what I am trying now on major geeks that I could find.
Ya, I know, but it shouldn't have even touched that drive while it was installing.
I am going to start getting back into DVD-RW backups again. I don't have a lot of files that are importiant, and they are small. Mabey I can stuff everything importiant onto my 1GB flash drive from now on...
I am trying out GetDataBack for NTFS. I am sure it will be able to get all my data back, but it will cost $80. | You pay for data recovery. Hopefully, you will get your data back, and you will (hopefully) back up your data more often. | |
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August 18th, 2006, 07:59 PM
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| | SoMuchAnime-SoLittleTime
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Sweet! 
GetDataBack is working great!
I am getting all the good data and putting it onto a spare partion I created(on a different hdd). Then I will backup everything that is very importiant, then clean it up(the uneeded dirs), then do a low level format on the data drive and put everything from the extra recovery partion back onto the clean disk.
Just might take a long time to move everything over and burn it. I have a few backup dvds I have been meaning to burn, but I was out of DVD-R's to burn them, so they started piling up(just picked up 100 dvd-r's today though!).
Though the biggest problem is I have loads of tiny files which are slow to move. 1 big file moves so much faster than thousands of little ones. | |
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