Preserved Topic: disk problem

i lost a very important directory when messing around, trying to merge two partitions without checking them for errors first.

i saw a post a few months ago about a similar problem and recall seeing answers to it refering software that might help recovering deleted stuff from a hard disk.

I really would appreciate any help, fast...

thanx in advanced

I hate to tell you this, but when messing around with partitions there is practically zero chance of any type of file recovery. The reason is that sector of your HD containing the information was probably overwritten when the partitions were merged.

TestDisk is what I used when I had those 'complications' with my HDD's partition table. Depending on how much your partitioning program already had done before crashing it may or may not be able to guess where the original partitions were and recover them.

Just try running that from a DOS (Win9x/ME) bootdisk, it's quite possible that it can do the job. Good Luck

you are now my new favorite person, kuckus ^______^

Good to hear that it worked for you!



[This message has been edited by kuckus (edited 12-18-2002).]

well.. i'm not going to celebrate yet....

scandisk is working on the recovered partition for 20minutes now... aye..... tis waitin' time....