Tech help needed: Trashed NTFS partition recovery
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Hi folks
The partition table on one of the drives of my NT box has become corrupted and I need to rebuild it. It's an NTFS partition that has become corrupted, BTW.
I have downloaded a few programs from the web that claim to be able to fix this. Bought one at $29.99 (Active@ Partition Recovery) but it subsequently can't do the job. It can read the MBR and show the folder structure of the trashed partition, but when asked to reconstruct the partition table fails to deliver the goods.
Another program (Recover It All for Windows) has found the bad partition and again claims to be able to fix it if I buy the full version, but at $150 is a bit steep.
Can anyone help or recommend a reasonably priced program that can do the job?
Thanks in advance
Jon
The partition table on one of the drives of my NT box has become corrupted and I need to rebuild it. It's an NTFS partition that has become corrupted, BTW.
I have downloaded a few programs from the web that claim to be able to fix this. Bought one at $29.99 (Active@ Partition Recovery) but it subsequently can't do the job. It can read the MBR and show the folder structure of the trashed partition, but when asked to reconstruct the partition table fails to deliver the goods.
Another program (Recover It All for Windows) has found the bad partition and again claims to be able to fix it if I buy the full version, but at $150 is a bit steep.
Can anyone help or recommend a reasonably priced program that can do the job?
Thanks in advance
Jon
Really hard to know whether they will work ahead of time. Does it actually mount as an available drive? If so you could try a :
chkdsk [drive:]
to see what it says and then try the following to try & repair :
chkdsk [drive:] /R
Good piece of software is Ontrack recovery, but its hideously expensive and may not be able to save your drive.
The drive is mountable. It's a 120Mb drive with two NTFS partitions - a 6Gb and a 114Gb. The 6Gb partition is intact but the 114Gb is damaged. NT Disk Manager shows the 114Gb partition as free space. System Commander 2000 Partition Manager shows it as a corrupted / damaged tiny partition plus 114-ish GB free.
The demo versions of the various programs I've tried show the files as still being there, so it is just the MBR / partition table that is corrupt.
I'll give chkdsk a go though, but from experience I'd say that if the MBR is damaged then chkdsk will see the damaged 114Gb partition as simply free space just like NT Disk Manager does.
The demo versions of the various programs I've tried show the files as still being there, so it is just the MBR / partition table that is corrupt.
I'll give chkdsk a go though, but from experience I'd say that if the MBR is damaged then chkdsk will see the damaged 114Gb partition as simply free space just like NT Disk Manager does.
Ontrack now do some self recovery tools so that you don't need to send the disk off to them. You can download a trial edition from www.ontrack.co.uk
Neil
Neil
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