Recovering a Disk Drive

[louann5840]

I would like to recover my "D" drive which has a lot of photos that are very precious to me. This drive has never had an OS system on it, only data, but I have not changed the OS on my C drive. Also I tried another HD with the same cables and it worked fine.

Pandora (recovery program) says my drive "is not ready"

In Disk managment:

Layout: Partition
Type: Basic
File System: Blank
Status: Healthy(active)

In explorer if I try to open the drive it says

"The disk is not formatted. Would you like to format it now?"

In Properties-for drive D

Type: Local Disk
File System; RAW

Used space: 0 bytes
Free space: 0 bytes

Capacity shows the whole drive as used-(the picture)

Thank you for any help!!!
Lou

 

[DelJo63]

you're in deep trouble. Looks like the partition table has been lost and without it
you can't get to any of the data.

I truly believe you need a professional data recovery service.

BE CAUTIOUS: Rumor! I've heard that sometimes you can use a command line utiltiy
to place the partition but NOT formated it at all. If the Force Be With You, you might
get to the data.

VERIFY VERIFY VERIFY

 

[gguerra]

You may also look into partition recovery software. It's not a guarantee but might just work. Search google for it and you might find something with a free trial just to see if it's possible.

 

[louann5840]

Recovery Software

I tried quite a few and nothing was working, but when I used the trial download for GetDataBack, it found a LOT of files. So I bought it, and recovered most of my files, but I got the whole folders back that had pics of my beloved Cat..Tater, who I had for 23 years, and recently passed away. My heart was just aching for those pics.

Now I have those, so I'm done. So, don't ever think what you're doing is not important. It is!! It means a lot to me in this case. I would definitely recommend that software!!

Thanks,
Lou

 

[kimsland]

Try this one: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/unformat-tutorial.htm
It is free for up to four folders down, ie
E:\Documents and Setting\UserName\My Documents\My Pictures
1,2,3,4 folders down

Here are a lot more free ones to choose from
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads38.html

I have found that free software is either just as good, if not better than the bought ones

Sadly I did not notice your original post
But for anyone else viewing, start with z-a-recovery (but do not pay) :grinthumb