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.


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