ceri sheeran

Hi,

I recovered some 25GB of data from a WD SATA hard drive which Partition Magic 7 and 8 both advised was BAD.

I used a program "Get My Data back" easily found and downloaded.

Never found the real cause of the problem. I believe the WD SATA drive lost its partition structure tables etc. causing an apparent complete data loss.

The hard drive in question was in use as my SATA boot drive but I could not change the partition sizes which lead to finding the error.

The only error was that PM 7 and PM 8 both advised the drive was BAD.

This was on the part of the PM screen where the drive partition layout is shown.

I just had a display that the drive was BAD not FAT32 or NTFS.where

More unusually I was able to boot normally from the drive I just could not change the partition sizes using PM 7 or PM 8

I've not used the hard drive since I recovered all the data off and probably will never use it again.

WD were never able to give an answer on this one. Nor were Symantec or any Forum

ALL they recommended was wiping the drive.

Data recovery worked. I also now have better and more extensive backups. Fortunately I lost no data.

hth

Ceri