Formatting it was a mistake in my view. I would have used a recovery tool that could pull the data off the disk regardless of the partition structure.
Gavin Wilby IT Support Engineer From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Bodnar Sent: 18 November 2014 19:31 To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] partition or data recovery? It’s been quite a while and I’ve not done a lot of this type of thing. So help would be appreciated: My dad’s hard drive died (4 year old HP desktop). So I took out the drive and slaved it to one of my machines at home. It sees (2) partitions one of which is the recovery partition and it sees fine as NTFS (no data). And the other it saw as RAW, and that’s the one that the OS and data were on. I downloaded EaseUS Partition Master and it saw the partition as NTFS and showed the correct amount of used space (on the right track). Had it do a scan/fix but no luck still not able to access anything win Windows. So I formatted it, so windows could see it. Then I used the EaseUS data recovery tool. That found the partitions and seemed to see all the directory structures and the files(more good news). It ran over night and looked like it found everything but when I restored a few test files, they were corrupt. I’m hoping that maybe a better took (GParted ?) might help? Thoughts? Thanks Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 [email protected]<mailto:> [cid:[email protected]] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com<http://www.guardianlife.com/> ________________________________ ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited and SMP Fund Services Limited are licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission. SMP Accounting & Tax Limited is a member of the ICAEW Practice Assurance Scheme. SMP Partners Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 000908V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, P.N. Eckersley, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Trustees Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 068396C Directors: A.C. Baggesen, M.W. Denton, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, J. Watterson, J. Cubbon SMP Fund Services Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 120288C Directors: V. Campbell, M.W. Denton, P.N. Eckersley, D.A. Manser, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, R.K. Corkill SMP Accounting & Tax Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 001316V Directors: I.F. Begley, A.J. Dowling, P. Duchars, P.N. Eckersley, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Capital Markets Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 002438V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, D.F Hudson, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott. SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited, SMP Fund Services Limited, SMP Accounting & Tax Limited and SMP Capital Markets Limited are members of the SMP Partners Group of Companies. This email is confidential and is subject to disclaimers. Details can be found at: http://www.smppartners.com/disclaimer.asp ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
