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File scavenger is another option, it saved my bacon. It was recommended to me in an older post on these forums. 3 months is going to be a long time to hope that any program is going to get them back (as eyec said) But I wish you luck :-)

I think Ricks has it right, try his suggestion, I went for the reinstall sadly but recovered all the files I cared less about. (Suprised PTT can still post, just blatent salemanship as are his reviews on CNET) Take a look at his previous posts :-)

I have now backed up all the files I wanted to keep so am about to do a format and start again...... Just to answer the two replies above, Caffeinated, I tried what you said it asked for a a forced dismaout then sadly told me there was inconsistancies with the drive and to run chkdsk (which...

I have the same problem as above, my file system is read as FAT12, but recovery programs show it as NTFS (as it should be) There are three posts with solutions, however two are not and the other suggests fixboot again, that would only work if the backup were not corrupt (which was the original...

Not is it certainly NTFS, the boot partition has been changed to FAT12! Certain file recovery programmes and partition repair programs identify it as NTFS even though the lead sector is described as MSDOS 5.0 with FAT12 as a file system. The drive is slaved onto the meachine I am using now...

Thanks, the only options I can find to change the file system are format quick and full. On the upside a couple of other file recovery programs show the whole structure intact making me think that if I can just get Windows to think the drive is NTFS then the drive may be able to be accessed as...

I had a perfectly working PC with XP Pro installed on a 160Gb Maxtor HDD. For no reason I error checked the hard drive, which the system did after rebooting, at the end of the test the system rebooted and announced that there was a error on the boot and boot.ini. Useing XP Emergency (on disk)...

I was running XP pro on my computer on a 20gig and fell foul to a virus which corrupted so many of my exe files I decided it was time to upgrade to a 160gig hard drive I had left over. After wiping the virus I fresh installed W2k Pro on the 160gig, I switched the 20gig as a slave drive. While...