HD partition unreadable after rebuild 1

[DBenz]

Hi, I have videos stored on removeable caddies with ATA HDs, created on a dual boot PC, the partition created with Partition Magic 8 when booted into the Win2K side of things. I was running daily Win XP home SP1 and never had a problem with my caddies. I have done a PC rebuild with SATA HDs and SP2 loaded on before any progs. I now come to use a caddy and both partitions say RAW as opposed to NTFS. After windows bootup saw chkdsk operate on one if not both of the partitions one is now reading as NTFS, I can now see its contents, the other refuses to be seen however, message in explorer says J is not accessible, the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Months of work here and all the caddy did was sit in a safe cupboard during the rebuild.
Very worrying. Another had the same error on one partition, thats now readable again perhaps due to chkdsk fixing something. Why though have these caddies displayed such after working fine prior to the rebuild. Pre rebuild it was attached via ribbon to a RAID pci card (not running raid but just giving another IDE socket as I have three opticals running on those on the M'Bd). It now is on the end of a ribbon as slave, then is an optical DVD/CDreader/writer and this goes onto IDE socket on Mbd. Those that were cable select were stopping the optical from being seen so now they are set to slave.
How can I get that partition to show its contents again ?
DBenz

 

[G0AOZ]

Been in similar situations where the partition table appears to get corrupted so nothing shows up...

I've had good results using GetDataBack but it's not free I'm afraid...

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[DonJusy]

it seems that the partition table get lost or destroyed.
You will get back the content as long as the partition table has been repaired.
Use software:
Partition Table Doctor 69.95$--this one would be reasonable

http://www.ptdd.com

Recover It All 99$

http://www.dtidata.com/recover_it_all.htm

 

[frankjo]

hi,

you could try to use power data recovery to get your data back.

http://www.powerdatarecovery.com

it works for me. hope it could help you.

 

[Santei]

Hi,
another vote for getdataback.
also find the previous thread

http://tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1438723&page=1

 

[DBenz]

Hi and thanks for the replies. I used NTFS data recovery 4.1.1.0 and recovered almost all my data. Some images were a mess though, used another prog and reckon I got back some of those not poss with the other prog. Its just a real shame this has happened, perfectly functional HD and yet files lost. Just very glad I have got back all but 4 of my videos. Pics loss is upsetting but must look on the bright side, could have lost the lot.
Guess one needs to back up even new drives, this is not a hardware thing. Must do so before anything else happens, always believe it happens rarely and to someone else, then when it happens to you, ouch !
DBenz