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XoOvermindoX · 04-07-2007, 05:59 PM

Here's the situation. I had a non-working 200GB drive. It crashed several days
ago, and I have been running off my old 10GB drive since then.

I have attached both drives simultaneously to run diagnostics, LONG--LONG
diagnostics. Everything is fine with the larger drive. Perhaps the MBR
malfunctioned. Friends and I believe the drive will work if I use a recover DVD.

Here's the problem: In order to get windows to "see" the drive, I "initialized"
it. This, without knowing that it resets the drive in some, partial way.

The data aren't fully deleted obviously...and thusly undelete recovery programs have not worked so far. I have used ACTIVE Undelete.

I need a reallllly good piece of software, either freeware or not, to allow me
to browse, and draw data from my malfunctioning drive (which is READABLE,
and which I will not format yet!!) so I can get on with my life and start
the drive formatted anew.

04-07-2007, 05:59 PM	#1 (permalink)
XoOvermindoX Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 6 OS: XP Home	Recovering data from an undamaged hard drive?? Here's the situation. I had a non-working 200GB drive. It crashed several days ago, and I have been running off my old 10GB drive since then. I have attached both drives simultaneously to run diagnostics, LONG--LONG diagnostics. Everything is fine with the larger drive. Perhaps the MBR malfunctioned. Friends and I believe the drive will work if I use a recover DVD. Here's the problem: In order to get windows to "see" the drive, I "initialized" it. This, without knowing that it resets the drive in some, partial way. The data aren't fully deleted obviously...and thusly undelete recovery programs have not worked so far. I have used ACTIVE Undelete. I need a reallllly good piece of software, either freeware or not, to allow me to browse, and draw data from my malfunctioning drive (which is READABLE, and which I will not format yet!!) so I can get on with my life and start the drive formatted anew.