Hard drive trouble

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carp

Hope this is not too long and convaluted.

Due to a faulty power supply I had a number of crashes resulting in a
corrupt

registry file.
(windows/system32/config/system)

After one of the crashes, one of the partitions on my hard drive was
not readable.

WinXP said it was not formatted. After numerous reboots over the span
of three days

the drive appeared. Then it crashed again and the drive apeared to be
unformatted

again. Once I replaced the power supply I was up and stable.
Using "R-Studio" data recovery software I " thought I had recovered
everything I

needed.
Then just for the hell of it I tried to fix the "boot" using "fixboot"
in the WinXP

recovery console.

Now, I realise I did not get everything I needed, and now the drive
,which is

partitioned as a 106 gig is showing up as a 10Mb.

the only data recovery software that can see my data is "VirtualLab"
and all I have

is a demo.
They want $ 3000.00 to recover the data.
Is there anty help for me.
Also I should add that the partition is showing up as "FAT16" it was
FAT32

TIA
Carpenter
 
Gee, how often do we get this question here..... Just restore from backup,
you do backup your data don't you..... :-)
 
Hope this is not too long and convaluted.
Click to expand...

the only data recovery software that can see my data is "VirtualLab"
and all I have
is a demo.
They want $ 3000.00 to recover the data.
Click to expand...

So are you saying the demo version won't recover data that it can "see" and
the full version which will, costs 3 grand, or is that the price to get a
data recovery company on the case? If the latter, how much is the full
version of that software which will recover the data and is there a money
back guarantee if it fails to get back all the files it "sees"?

I've always believed in the idea of backing up my valuable data, so I can
restore from a backup should such a situation occur. Do you have a backup of
this data that you can restore from or have you put all of your data eggs in
one basket?

If the partition has actually changed from FAT32 to FAT16 that's pretty
serious although there are utilities that change partitions back the other
way, I'm unsure if that would recover any lost data as a consequence of the
change though.

Good luck - you may need it.

Paul
 
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