[aibling328]

Greetings all:

Dell Laptop computer, Windows XP, O/S. A year or so ago I reformatted the HDD and something went wrong and I wound up with an unwanted partition. So I HAD C:\, D:\ which was about 1GB in size (the unwanted partition) and E:\ CD ROM drive. Rather than start over I left the unwanted 1GB D:\ alone.

I eventually decided to use the D:\ partition to store my digital camera photos on. Has worked great for almost a year.

I recently updated my Kaspersky antivirus software from 2011 to 2012 and a few days later needed to offload pictures to my D:\. (I mention the Kaspersky update because this has been the only major change I've made to the computer)

However, my 1GB D:\ drive is no longer listed and ofcourse my photo file folders are no longer visible.

Any ideas on how to recover this drive partition?

aibling328

 

[ssd-tweak]

Have a look in Disk Management. See if there's an unallocated 1GB partition there.

 

[aibling328]

OK, found Disk Management. Found this:

Volume Layout Type File System Status Capacity Free Space
(Blank) Partition Basic FAT Healthy (EISA configuration) 55MB 48MB
(Blank) Partition Basic FAT32 Healthy (Unknown Partition) 3.51GB 5MB
(C Partition Basic NTFS Healthy (System) 24.37GB 7.79GB


%Free Fault Tolerance Overhead
87% No 0%
0% No 0%
31% No 0%

So much for my memory! I'm guessing now that the 55MB partition is the one I want to recover. I'm now basing this on the 48MB free in this partition and the amount of photos I've saved.

I have no idea what the FAT32 volume is unless it's the Recovery Disk area and or the XP O/S. I don't think the O/S is 3.51GB in size!

I've explored the options available at the top of the Disk Management page and find none open to me or any that work.

Where should I go from here?

aibling328

 

[Networks]

Download the trial version of r-studio scan the drive for your data if it finds it then purchase and recover data to another drive

 

[aibling328]

Download the trial version of r-studio scan the drive for your data if it finds it then purchase and recover data to another drive

Sorry.... answer too vague for my ability. Besides, I can't afford to buy any software that might or might not help me. (Been there, done that, got a T-shirt!) Thanks anyhow.

Will take the same money and let a computer techie recover the files.

 

[tyza]

paying for a tech to recover files , the cost is usually pretty high for recovery ,

not only does it take some time , it also usually based on how much data you are trying to

recover, its best to scan to see if your data is still there in the first place.