if it is just the partition table, the repartitioning the drive with FDISK will bring it back. always do this on a clone of the drive. make a clone using Norton Ghost or something equivalent that knows how to do sector copies. also, you have to be copying to an identical model of drive.
Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frantisek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PDML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:00 PM Subject: I'm sad & plea for help (disk problems) > Hi, > during an upload of most recent pictures, my old system made a > digital equivalent of a chuckle or hiccup and rebooted. > Subsequently, partition table on my brand new 80GB drive which > hosts my photographs (most backed up, but not the last few > shootings which I had to yet backup from it, including the latest > I have - fortunately - still on the CF) got erased. It was FAT32 > system. I have tried few utilities to peek around, and it seems a > copy of the information (BR) residues on the disk still. Could some > of the more computer-savvy please recommend what to do? How I could > restore the second copy? I do not want to mess around much with > either the free or paid utilities to not break something up before > I know more.

