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grrrrrrrrrr... hosed hard drive, need data recovery help
krush
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K... I royally fucked up my primary drive this morning. Long and short, I have two drives in my main machine, both 320GB. One was dying, so over the weekend I was moving data off of it to the primary drive. Today, I decided to reinitialize the drive (aka low level format) before I send it back to Seagate and ran HDDGuru to do it. Apparently I pointed to the wrong drive and hosed my primary drive, which I doscovered after coming back to my machine rebooting on it's own.
Now... What I'm assuming is that as HDDGuru was writing 0's to the drive, it ran across space that Windows was using and caused a fault, resulting in the reboot. If this is true, then there's a chance that quite a bit of my data is still on the drive and possibly recoverable.
Here's what I'm looking for:
Obviously, the partition table has been wiped out as is the MBR. I'm looking for a way to create an MBR, and properly partition the remainder of the drive as NTFS. Once that's done, the data should still be there, but still not accessible except by some sort of data recovery tool. Do you guys know of any recovery tools I could use to extract my data once it's at this point?
Now... What I'm assuming is that as HDDGuru was writing 0's to the drive, it ran across space that Windows was using and caused a fault, resulting in the reboot. If this is true, then there's a chance that quite a bit of my data is still on the drive and possibly recoverable.
Here's what I'm looking for:
Obviously, the partition table has been wiped out as is the MBR. I'm looking for a way to create an MBR, and properly partition the remainder of the drive as NTFS. Once that's done, the data should still be there, but still not accessible except by some sort of data recovery tool. Do you guys know of any recovery tools I could use to extract my data once it's at this point?
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I'll be adding this to my toolkit now, Thanks!
Thanks dude!
Nack you noticed the portable version? The one that doesn't need to be installed and that will run off a USB key?