Corrupt data!

[EXreaction]

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.

[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 .

[EXreaction]

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?

[paul9]

Look into Partition Magic.

[carl33p]

Ive never done anything of the sort, or used any of these programs....
but look into sum of these maybe:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads38.html

[jokostel]

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.

[jokostel]

Quote:

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.

[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.

[#43 fan]

Quote:

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.

[EXreaction]

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.