Damaged Partion Table/Directory Structure

[OCS1]

Ok,

After a massive power surge, my comp will no longer boot into Windows. The HDD has win2k installed. All I get after POST is "Insert system disk"

I tried slaving the drive into a system running XP Pro, device manager recognizes the drive, but the drive does not show up in My Computer or Disk Management. I used EZ recovery pro to recover the files, but the 17GB woth of crucial data have all benn renamed so it would take months to go thru and rename everything back to its original name.

Ive scanned the drive to test for any possible physical probmlems, everything passes just fine.

Ive booted up witht the Win2k CD to run recovery console, but no Windows installation is detected.

My question is, can anyone recommend a method or a program that recovers damaged partions/directory structures?

 

[Freestone]

A lot of forum members have reported good success with GetDataBack from

http://www.runtime.org/

Another product you may want to try is Active@ UNDELETE found at

http://www.active-undelete.com/

There are more products out there, hopefully others will post their experiences.

 

[OCS1]

Thanks for the reply

Unfortunately, those programs didnt help. Niether one would even recognize the drive was present.

I actually recovered the files already using Ontrack's Easy Recovery Pro, but the problem is that ALL of the files have been renamed. Easy recovery usually does this when there has been significant damage to the HDDs table because it can no longer read the original file name.

I was wanting to rebuild the partition without deleting it to see if I can get the original data back that way. The more I research, the more I think that this is not going to happen

Any suggestions?

 

[Freestone]

I'm sorry to hear that the tools didn't work for you, especially GetDataBack, where it's own advertisement says "recover even when Windows doesn't recognize the drive", which fit your symptoms. I wonder why Easy Recovery Pro is able to recognize the drive, while the others can't?