FAT Table

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G'day,

A 40 gig hard-drive, partitioned up into a 10 and 30

The partition is buggered. In the ranish partition manager it see's the 30
gig, but says the boot sector is corrupt - ie, the FAT tables have gone up
the spout

Windows itself does not see it - nothing surprising there

I tried a program called Virtual Lab, which is the only one that i have
found that can "see" all my 30 gigs of dirs and files - it bypasses windows,
and reads the 303 gig'er at driver level

I simply haven't deleted files into recycle bin, then emptied that..Virtual
Lab wants $500 us dollars, and as im in Aust, I'm not paying that. Even if i
did, that $500 is to recover a "quota" of 30 gig, and once thats "used", if
another drive stuffs up, $500 again

What i need is a program that can read my (damaged partition / boot sector)
30 gig'er at driver level, , and thus restore to second, primary slave drive

What programs does anyone recommend ?
One's like RecoverMyFiles don't work

Ta,
Jeff
 
What i need is a program that can read my (damaged partition / boot sector)
30 gig'er at driver level, , and thus restore to second, primary slave drive

What programs does anyone recommend ?
One's like RecoverMyFiles don't work
Click to expand...

try ,
this may help to retrieve data:
http://www.active-undelete.com/
also find & try GetDataBack ...
 
Jeff said:
G'day,

A 40 gig hard-drive, partitioned up into a 10 and 30

The partition is buggered. In the ranish partition manager it see's the 30
gig, but says the boot sector is corrupt - ie, the FAT tables have gone up
the spout

Windows itself does not see it - nothing surprising there

I tried a program called Virtual Lab, which is the only one that i have
found that can "see" all my 30 gigs of dirs and files - it bypasses
windows,
and reads the 303 gig'er at driver level

I simply haven't deleted files into recycle bin, then emptied
that..Virtual
Lab wants $500 us dollars, and as im in Aust, I'm not paying that. Even if
i
did, that $500 is to recover a "quota" of 30 gig, and once thats "used",
if
another drive stuffs up, $500 again

What i need is a program that can read my (damaged partition / boot
sector)
30 gig'er at driver level, , and thus restore to second, primary slave
drive

What programs does anyone recommend ?
One's like RecoverMyFiles don't work

Ta,
Jeff
Click to expand...
I've used PC Inspector File Recovery for retrieving deleted data but its not
so good if the drive is faulty.
http://www.webattack.com/get/pcinspector.shtml
When my Dads year-old Hard Drive went faulty we had to buy GetDataBack for
NTFS for about £70 but it was worth it
for a years worth of work recovered.
 
Jeff said:
G'day,

A 40 gig hard-drive, partitioned up into a 10 and 30

The partition is buggered. In the ranish partition manager it see's the 30
gig, but says the boot sector is corrupt - ie, the FAT tables have gone up
the spout
Click to expand...
I simply haven't deleted files into recycle bin, then emptied that..Virtual
Lab wants $500 us dollars, and as im in Aust, I'm not paying that. Even if i
did, that $500 is to recover a "quota" of 30 gig, and once thats "used", if
another drive stuffs up, $500 again
Click to expand...

Why not just restore your backups?

Didn't make any? Then the data can't be THAT important.
 
backups ?, had only just installed programs, then created data files before
the drive went up the duff :(

plus 2 years of data saved to hdd
 
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