Unable to see hard-drive contents PLEASE HELP`

[jd355Calais]

hi everyone.

somthing very strang has occured to my 80gig hd. the hd contains two partitions e: and f: i have lots of data on both but recently i opened up the e: and there seemed to be only one file visible, allthough when i checked the disk space there is only 2 gig free. there is so much stuff on this partition that i need and i cant see it. what is the problem what do i do. thanks.

P.S) the other partition (f is fine.

 

[wolluf]

Bit more info please. Like what's your operating system. Filestore type (ntfs/fat32). Primary or extended partition? Created by current o/s or elsewhere?
Anything happened changed since you last could see this partition? Are you just accessing it in explorer.

 

[jd355Calais]

i am running win2k but i have tried the drive on many different computers running different os's such as xp.

the drive is NTFS

 

[syskplim]

go to

http://www.ntfs.com

and download NTFS Reader for DOS. its freeware.

try to bootup ur computer with that NTFS bootdisk and see if u can get any data in ur HDD.

but seems that u had tried connected ur HDD in a XP system and u still can't get any data in it, i think chances to get back ur data is very thin. good luck.


With kind regards.
syskplim@streamyx.com

 

[Freestone]

Others have reported good success with the recovery software from the following link:

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

The following may also give you some help:

http://www.partition-recovery.com