my worst nightmare

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Scrappy

hi,

here's the story of what has happened so far. I was working on m
computer when it just urned off and wouldn't start up again. I figure
it was my hard drive, and thought i'd lost everything, turns out it wa
the motherboard.. anyway, got the computerback and decided it would be
good idea to have two hard drives, so that i could back up my stuff
Whilst reinstalling wndows xp from the cd, my mate started to instal
it on the drive that had all my stuff on and not the new drive, it wa
only around 5 seconds before i realised that it looked like it wa
formating my drive. So i panicked and turned the computer off.
reinstalled windows on the other drive no problem, however, once
tried to access the data on my other drive (D:) it stated that it wa
not formatted and did i want to do it now?

I got a hold of a program called recover my files, and once it had don
a search all of my previous files were listed, with the right file
sizes etc, so i went to save all the files to my (C:) drive, and it di
that also, but when i went to look at them, every single one was 1kb i
size and useless!!

I know that these files are recoverable because when recover my file
shows a list of them after the search, if you click on one of th
photos, you get a preview and the photos look fine, but wen i try t
save them, the same thing happens and I end up with a file of 1Kb,

can someone please help!?
 
I got a hold of a program called recover my files, and once it had done
a search all of my previous files were listed, with the right files
sizes etc, so i went to save all the files to my (C:) drive, and it did
that also, but when i went to look at them, every single one was 1kb in
size and useless!!
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I deleted a partition by accident once, and used RecoverMyFiles to
restore them - they were all named RecoveredFilexxxxx.extension and
while deleting the FAT caused there to be no names or folder structure,
all the files where there. I don't understand the 1k part, my files,
some 40,000 images and documents, were all the right size, and when I
drug/dropped them on the new drive they all copied properly.

Have you contacted the vendor yet?
 
thanks for all the help so far, and criticism!!!

I've been using easy recovery and have managed to get a lot of my stuf
back, but all the filenames are FIL001, FIL002 etc

granted the mp3's i got back work, but the wma's weren't listed and
tried adding the hex stuff in the add signature field, but it didn'
find them. Recover my files, still lists all of them in the right fil
structure etc. but still only makes them 1kb files with no data when
save them. any ideas
 
Hello,

EASEUS DataRecoveryWizard utility can help. Speaking about me, it was
easily able to restore deleted, lost file and unformat drive,
so I think you will also find it quite useful. Really recommended
tool, give it a try.

http://www.easeus.com/
 
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