NTFS W2K 128GB Files Moved / Undelete Problem

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Andreas Gandor

Hi,
i have encountered following problem.
After buying for my PC a 160GB drive, partitioning (running under W2K)
i moved files from one partition to another.
After a short time windows remarked inconsisty in his boot partition.
I canceled the moving/copying only to find out that the data has been
written instead in partition E on the area of partition C.
Switched of the computer, installed another boot drive and tried to test
available restoration software.
Most Data i looked for, i was able to restore, but not the folders moved
(which crashed partition C).

My question: is there a software which is able to find the moved folders?
As it seems the software i tested:
NTFS Recovery 1.22
FileScavenger 2.1
Recover It All
Ontrack

was unable to see the files i moved at all

only Restorer2000 see the files in their target partition (but with file
length 0)



now some details :
System W2K SP3 (before crash withoout activated LB bit)
Drive 160GB
Partions (logicaly) C 0-11GB
D 11-126GB
E 127-148GB (phisicaly -10GB - 10GB)

tried to recover files with and without enabled bit
tried to recover files with drive described in bios as 128GB and 160GB

no succes.

i hope to hear about a solution

with kind regards
Andreas Gandor
 
Andreas Gandor said:
Hi,
i have encountered following problem.
After buying for my PC a 160GB drive, partitioning (running under W2K)
i moved files from one partition to another.
After a short time windows remarked inconsisty in his boot partition.
I canceled the moving/copying only to find out that the data has been
written instead in partition E on the area of partition C.
Switched of the computer, installed another boot drive and tried to test
available restoration software.
Most Data i looked for, i was able to restore, but not the folders moved
(which crashed partition C).

My question: is there a software which is able to find the moved folders?
As it seems the software i tested:
NTFS Recovery 1.22
FileScavenger 2.1
Recover It All
Ontrack

was unable to see the files i moved at all

only Restorer2000 see the files in their target partition
(but with file length 0)
Click to expand...

How about Windows itself? If it writes the data somewhere else
I would also expect it to read that data in the same wrong locations
that it wrote it.
You will have to recreate the exact same circumstances though.
now some details :
System W2K SP3 (before crash withoout activated LB bit)
Drive 160GB
Partions (logicaly) C 0-11GB
D 11-126GB
Click to expand...
E 127-148GB (phisicaly -10GB - 10GB)
huh?


tried to recover files with and without enabled bit
Click to expand...

You should try without enabled.
tried to recover files with drive described in bios as 128GB and 160GB

no succes.

i hope to hear about a solution
Click to expand...

If you can't get Windows to see them in the destination partition then
you are ****ed. What is left is recovery by filetype header recognition
in the former C: and hope your files were written unfragmented.
 
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