Primary Partiton was altered and now having trouple recovering data...

[RHill051]

Hey guys.. sorry for making this my first post.. but after searching the forums i haven't found anything that has provided me very much help in solving my issue. I recently made the mistake of installing an outdated program that has known compatibility issues with windows 7. I eventually tried to uninstall the program and immediately got the "blue screen of death" since then i haven't been able to boot my computer. I purchased a hard drive case and connected my SATA hard drive to my wife's laptop to attempt to pull some of my important files off the storage device before reformatting the computer. To my surprise my 250gb hard drive only showed one partition named G: that was 99mb in size. I used Active Partition Recovery and now i can see that the primary partition is still "there" but its labeled (3 which i thought was odd since I've never seen a partition labeled with a number. I don't know how to get the files off the hard drive and I'm getting pretty frustrated at this point. If anyone has some advice or would be able to walk me through recovering everything located in the 'Users' folder on my hard drive i would be very happy. Thank guys

 

[goombawaho]

Assuming NTFS partitions on the drive - Download GetDataBack for NTFS. Install the trial version on another computer with the drive in question connected as a slave or via usb adapter.

Run it and see what you can see. If you can see your files, you can buy the license and you will be able to get back what you saw. There are other products (some free) but this is the only one I have personally used, owned and have had success with.

 

[vacunita]

I agree with Goomb. Download the trial version of GetDataBack to make sure your files are recoverable.



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[RHill051]

hey guys thanks for the advice the program worked awesome for getting my data off of the hard drive but now i'm posed with another interesting problem. I've deleted everyting that was on the corupted partiton but i still dont see all the free space that was on my hard drive. can windows 7 or the above mention program completely erase the hard drive as though it was brand new?

 

[vacunita]

Since you'll have to re-install Windows again, just let the Operating System installation delete and create partitions as part of the setup process.

Just place the drive back into its computer, and boot off the OS DVD.

Alternatively, you'll have to go into Disk Management in Widows and erase all partitions and recreate them.

Right click on my Computer and then Select Manage. From their Click on Disk Management.



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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

Web & Tech