Getting somewhat off topic, For a damaged drive, or partition..
UNLESS YOU HAVE ADEQUATE BACKUPS.... First approach for an unreadable but working drive should probably be to acquire software to read the drive sector by sector , and image the drive onto a similar one (If the drive cannot be read, to replace the controller board and try again ) If the drive cannot be imaged - or a reasonable percentage of the source imaged then it's a case of pay Ontrack or whoever, If a reasonably complete image of the drive can be built, then the recovery application should then be capable of trying to re-build partitions from MBR and partition tables then reconstruct the files from the allocation strings (remembering that directories are just files with particular format) those 'files' will all be recorded in 'working' directories Then - determining which 'files' appear to be directories, extract the filenames and starting allocation unit, using that value to locate any corresponding set from the 'files' recorded in the working directories, assign the individual files (allocation sets) to the directories At this point you could have a reasonable representation of the original drive But do NOT try using Chkdsk, or any other utility that looks for inconsistencies in the allocation tables You may not, however have usable copies of the data files - in which case - it's back to the pay (Ontrack) option and price. JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kylde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:22 PM Subject: Re: Soft - OS: WHere does windows put deleted files from a.... > I saw a quote for $1500 for a 40gb laptop drive, ouch! > > Marc Sims wrote on 11/01/2006, 19:04: > > > If you decide to go for full attempted recovery and want your data > > back it will cost you anywhere between $500 to $1000 and up depending > > on how fesible the data is to be recovered. > > > -- > Regards > > Kylde > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: > CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. > > -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
