Hello,
I have a large problem that I want to ask you knowledgable folk.
I have a 60GB IBM Deskstar. It is in 3 partitions of ~20GB. Due to an unfortunate accident earlier today, partitions 1 & 3 (C:/ and E:/) have become corrupted. D:/ is accesable though and all files are ok!
C:/ contains Windows 2000 + allot of valuable files that I cannot afford to lose
E:/ contains 3 years worth of mp3's and other important files that I have collected throughout the years, along with my work.
The information on both drives are very valuable to me and I cannot replace the files, especially the years of work that is on it!
I know I should have made a ghost of the drives and/or kept a regular backup, but I was one of those people that thought it could never happen to me (how wrong I was)
My question is this: How can I recover the data from these drives?
I have a spare HD that I have installed win2k on. Win2k recognises the drives, but will not allow me to access them (same with DOS). I get this message:
"The drive in drive E:/ does not appear to be formatted, do you want to format it now?" or something along those lines...
Is there any way that I can ge the data back?
Thanks in advance...
Emohawk
Additional: Win2k Disk Checker says that all drives are healty FAT32 except "C:/" and "E:/". Which are healty but not FAT32 or any other type of format
C:/ is also registering as active, which I'm guessing is the reason why the drive sounds like it's writing all the time :?
Also, FDISK, says that C:/ and E:/ are both FAT32, however they have wierd labels, like: $$^|^%&^ kinda label???
Emo
I have a large problem that I want to ask you knowledgable folk.
I have a 60GB IBM Deskstar. It is in 3 partitions of ~20GB. Due to an unfortunate accident earlier today, partitions 1 & 3 (C:/ and E:/) have become corrupted. D:/ is accesable though and all files are ok!
C:/ contains Windows 2000 + allot of valuable files that I cannot afford to lose
E:/ contains 3 years worth of mp3's and other important files that I have collected throughout the years, along with my work.
The information on both drives are very valuable to me and I cannot replace the files, especially the years of work that is on it!
I know I should have made a ghost of the drives and/or kept a regular backup, but I was one of those people that thought it could never happen to me (how wrong I was)
My question is this: How can I recover the data from these drives?
I have a spare HD that I have installed win2k on. Win2k recognises the drives, but will not allow me to access them (same with DOS). I get this message:
"The drive in drive E:/ does not appear to be formatted, do you want to format it now?" or something along those lines...
Is there any way that I can ge the data back?
Thanks in advance...
Emohawk
Additional: Win2k Disk Checker says that all drives are healty FAT32 except "C:/" and "E:/". Which are healty but not FAT32 or any other type of format
C:/ is also registering as active, which I'm guessing is the reason why the drive sounds like it's writing all the time :?
Also, FDISK, says that C:/ and E:/ are both FAT32, however they have wierd labels, like: $$^|^%&^ kinda label???
Emo