Whats the best utility to undelete a deleted partition? 
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Posted by John@Smith.com on February 2, 2006, 6:49 pm
Please log in for more thread options Still having big quirky problems with my motherboard so I decided to reinstall WIN XP after moving all my data from the Hitachi to my other 5 HDs. Unfortunately when it came time to delete the old partition on the Hitachi I inadverdantly deleted another 200 gig partition instead. Yup its hard to do but I did it anyway when I was all worked up , pissed off and it was late at night. Now I hopefully can undelete this partition and its 200 gigs of data. By the way Im RMAing that chaintech thats it ! Ive remounted that nforce4 chip cooler 5 times. Its not rocket science and Im using all official mountings, fans and heatsinks from Chaintech that they use on the same boards. How freaking hard can it be? It seems to get a little bit better after I mess with it but the whole PC acts weird - locking up randomly out of the blue after a while, corrupting data, crashing. The last time it seemed to settle down but playing FAR CRY it crashed about 15 times ! Ive checked memory once again, checked and tried to swap out 6 different HDs. Reisntalled WIN XP PRO again. Even have a new processor X2 dual core which I got last night. Not that I thought it was a processor problem at all but thought that gave me a good chance to eliminate that too. Its got to be the board. An outside chance it could be some virus that cant be wiped out unless low level formatted. Could it also be my ATI 800XL too? Since its acting up in games. Sure dont have another graphics card to test that but since theres an obvious correlation with a lot of the wackiness and the nforce4 chip its definitely not the main culprit if its even a factor at all. ive had a few other motherboards that flaked out after a year. Its good to get a MB with a 3 year warranty. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Joe on February 2, 2006, 8:00 pm
Please log in for more thread options make my second drive that I had moved everything I wanted to save to unreadable in the process. File Scavenger got it all aback for me. http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm Joe | |||||||||||||
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Posted by John@Smith.com on February 3, 2006, 4:54 am
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>A few months back I reinstalled windows and somehow or another managed to
>make my second drive that I had moved everything I wanted to save to >unreadable in the process. File Scavenger got it all aback for me. >http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm >Joe That looks like a good one. I went to the site and read up on it. I ended up using Active Partition recovery. Active has a few primitive looking programs like KILL DISK which overwrites everything on your hard disk etc 3 times to make it almost impossible to undelete and a few others like Partition Recovery and Undelete. They put all of them together in a program called Active Boot Disk and it works well. I undeleted the Partition after detecting it in less than a minute. I thought there would be some dramatic grinding away at the HD as it rewrote 200 gig or something but it was poof and then it undeleted - the partition. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by ModeratelyConfused on February 6, 2006, 12:43 pm
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>>A few months back I reinstalled windows and somehow or another managed to
>>make my second drive that I had moved everything I wanted to save to >>unreadable in the process. File Scavenger got it all aback for me. >>http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm >>Joe >
> That looks like a good one. > > I went to the site and read up on it. > > I ended up using Active Partition recovery. > > Active has a few primitive looking programs like KILL DISK which > overwrites everything on your hard disk etc 3 times to make it almost > impossible to undelete and a few others like Partition Recovery and > Undelete. > > They put all of them together in a program called Active Boot Disk and > it works well. I undeleted the Partition after detecting it in less > than a minute. I thought there would be some dramatic grinding away at > the HD as it rewrote 200 gig or something but it was poof and then it > undeleted - the partition. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but when something is 'deleted' or 'formated', it's only marked to be overwritten, not actually 'gone forever'. MC | |||||||||||||
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Posted by John@Smith.com on February 9, 2006, 4:55 am
Please log in for more thread options On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 12:43:27 -0500, "ModeratelyConfused"
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>Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but when something is 'deleted' or >'formated', it's only marked to be overwritten, not actually 'gone forever'. You are correct. So I should have assumed it would be quick but the other utilities come to think of it also backed up data so thats what Im thinking about. You know when you recover files with scandisk in Direct CD and many other utilities Ive used etc it undeletes/recovers files and recopies them, another safety step. | |||||||||||||
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>
> Still having big quirky problems with my motherboard so I decided to
> reinstall WIN XP after moving all my data from the Hitachi to my other
> 5 HDs. Unfortunately when it came time to delete the old partition on
> the Hitachi I inadverdantly deleted another 200 gig partition instead.
> Yup its hard to do but I did it anyway when I was all worked up ,
> pissed off and it was late at night. Now I hopefully can undelete this
> partition and its 200 gigs of data.
>
> By the way Im RMAing that chaintech thats it !
>
> Ive remounted that nforce4 chip cooler 5 times. Its not rocket science
> and Im using all official mountings, fans and heatsinks from Chaintech
> that they use on the same boards. How freaking hard can it be?
>
> It seems to get a little bit better after I mess with it but the whole
> PC acts weird - locking up randomly out of the blue after a while,
> corrupting data, crashing. The last time it seemed to settle down but
> playing FAR CRY it crashed about 15 times !
>
> Ive checked memory once again, checked and tried to swap out 6
> different HDs. Reisntalled WIN XP PRO again. Even have a new processor
> X2 dual core which I got last night. Not that I thought it was a
> processor problem at all but thought that gave me a good chance to
> eliminate that too. Its got to be the board.
>
> An outside chance it could be some virus that cant be wiped out unless
> low level formatted.
>
> Could it also be my ATI 800XL too? Since its acting up in games. Sure
> dont have another graphics card to test that but since theres an
> obvious correlation with a lot of the wackiness and the nforce4 chip
> its definitely not the main culprit if its even a factor at all.
>
> ive had a few other motherboards that flaked out after a year. Its
> good to get a MB with a 3 year warranty.