Corrupt Data Recovery(Multipule files)

[HeyYouMan]

Hello,
I am looking for software that will recovery corrupt data, scattered across a whole partition.

System info:
-Windows XP
-NFTS
-160gb HDD, 2 partitions,
--30GB Primary OS. No data lost
--120GB, 110GB of Data, Movies, Documents(PDF, Word, .txt)

Situation:
Back-up program named Restore It! installed. It created a new partition out of free space on 2nd partition.
(Unwanted)Program removed successfully, but hidden partition remained.
Used Partition Magic to delete hidden partition and resize reamining 2 partitions.
**Power Failure during Partition Magic operation.
Auto Rebooted, Windows automatiically ran Chkdsk.
Opened drive, saw all files, backed-up to DVD.
Re-ran Partition Magic.
Everything appeared fine.

-The next day, went to open a pdf ... won't open
-Documents - A few okay, most filled with gibberish
-Movies - Some won't open, >>Some will play the wrong movie<<, some okay.

All the data is there, The partition is recognized. The folder names, and files names are all there, they just aren't connected to the right data.

All the programs to restore files that I have tried either, only work to restore a partition, MBR, ect, or limit themselves to the data associated with the file.

Programs Tried-
Ontrack Easy Recovery
HDD Regenerator
R-Studio
Stellar Phoenix
Windows Chckdsk /f

The only documents that are vitally needed to be restored are the .txt and .doc (the pdf's would be nice too) The movies do not matter.

Does anyone know of software that will work?

If not I was thinking of attempting to rename all the files as .txt or .doc and trying to use Ontrack Easy Recovery (Word Recovery) to restore them, hoping that it might pull out any of the written text, and then I would manually sort through it and pull out the documents, and throw away the gibberish(which I am assuming would be other data such as the movies).
Do you think that might work? Does anyone know of a simple .txt and .doc file restorer that will pull out works among gibberish?

This is over 7 years of my writings, and I can take the time to try to recover anything, no matter how long it takes.


As far as a data recovery company and paying thier outragous half a thousand dollars. I would consider it, however certin files are unlicenced(lifetime trail software), and would be reported to the authorites(I asked).

Please, any and all help is appreciated.

 

[HeyYouMan]

Update:
Renaming the files as .txt .doc did not work, Word will not open a file larger then 32 mb

 

[ptdd]

Hello,

Try use EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard, use the "RawRecovery"

Maybe the articel can help you:

http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/recover-repartitioned-drives.htm

 

[Spirit]

I am currently using the seagate software tool which is pretty good to recover a broken RAID across 10 * 300gb disks! Oh joy

http://services.seagate.com/diysoftware.aspx

It'll let you use it for small files and then you'll have to buy it for larger ones should it be successful.

But what I would recomend is to stop using the disks immediately and recover to an external device for almost nothing nowadays... that'll prevent youy over righting any sectors on the disks that may contain data.

Iain

 

[HeyYouMan]

Hello,
I downloaded a trial version of both easeus and seagate. It looks like seagate File Recovery For Windows will recover the data, and has a lot of other useful options to play with so I'm planning to purshase a licence for it.

I've been going through the hexidecimal of my hard drive, and found out that the first 20 gigs or so is still in order and I know within a few 100,000 sectors where the files no longer match up with the data.

Now I know it is possible to due a raw data recover and get all my files back, however they are all renamed, and I have to do it in small regions(Whenever I try to scan the whole thing it freezes) also it has a little trouble with recognizing some of my movies as .txt, making me look through a hundred recovered .txt junk to find the actual files tha I wrote.

Is there a quicker way? Like I know exactly where a certin data file begins (0112fe9b000) and I know where the file is(D:\Folder\File.html)... the data is still in order, its just in the wrong spot... instead of trying to pull a file from the data, is there any way to just realign the files to where the data is? I haven't looked yet but I'm pretty sure there may even be a pattern, and all the files may just be looking at the wrong data.

Also, I know that I can look through the files and find out where they are on the hard drive(View...), but is there a way to go to a certin section on the harddrive and found out what data is there(according to the files structure that windows chckdisk /f made up)?
Going at 2GB regions at a time and going through all the .txt files it recovers about 45 times over, does not sound like any fun(though if there is a pattern I should be able to set regions to exactly where the files I want are).

Thanks in advance for any help.