XoOvermindoX

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.

linderman

active @ undelete is only ofr deleted or formatted data recovery



you need getdataback runtime.org they have a free scanner to check to see if this program can "see" your data to your liking


if it can, then you need to purchase to actually perform the recovery

XoOvermindoX

Perfect, I will (probably) purchase this program and update with my recovery
status :) If it works and so forth. Undelete is rather time consuming though -
is this program as well?

linderman

on a big drive sure it will take a long time; these types of programs work byte by byte and cluster by cluster