HELP!!! Data is there but partitions destroyed - what to do?

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dthelwal

I've got an HP Omnibook 500 which had one of its SODIMMs fail, this
led to a failure in updating one of the HP diagnostics utilities and
this destroyed the partition structure of the drive (the HP
diagnostics are stored on their own partition).

I've had a look at it with The Partition Resizer and I can see the FAT
tables (format was FAT32 LBA and the OS was Windows 98SE) but I can't
seem to get to a stage where I can re-establish the partitions.
Everything I've tried (including all the utils on The Ultimate Boot CD
and Partition Magic 8.0's boot disk) shows it as having no partitions
and that's all - only the aforementioned utility can see the FATs and
that's all.

Can anyone recommend a good utility to attempt this recovery? I'm not
looking for something to build the drive for long term use, I just
want to get the data files off it so that I can fry it and rebuild it
from its original image CD.

Thanks

DT
 
You're welcome to download partinfo.zip from our support page and extract it
to a DOS bootdisk > run partinfo like this: "partinfo>anything.txt [enter]"
post the logfile in our support forum so we can examine if this can be
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fixed with DiskPatch.

Kind regards,
Joep

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Try using Stellar Phoenix recovery utility:

http://www.stellarinfo.com/

Boot into Windows and make sure the drive is attached. Then point the
Stellar Phoenix utility at the dead disk and might be able give you a
directory structure and allow you to restore the files from it onto
*another* HD. Stellar Phoenix is safe because it will not make any
alterations to the disk its reading from. You can throw the old HD into the
garbage (or whatever). This little tool has saved my ass in the past.

NOTE: the demo version allows you to read the contents of the drive and if
works, you'll have to purchase the full version for ~$100.
 
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