[Pc_Support] File Recovery Windows 2000

[Aaron Morrison]

On 21 Sep 2005 at 8:38, ozz at ozz.is-a-geek.net wrote:

> > While saving an email as a file, my PC locked up hard. I had to hit the
> > reset switch to restart.
> > When the PC booted up I had lost a drive partition. The drive letter still
> > shows up in windows and knoppix but as
> > unformatted. There are about 8 gigs of data that I would like to recover.
> > Partition Magic also reports
> > this as unformatted. This is the first 8 gigs of a 30 gig drive.The rest
> > of
> > the drive seems to be working fine.
> > I believe it was formatted fat32.
> >   I think this may be a good candidate for a file recovery tool.
> > Can someone reccomend a good program for this?
> 
> SpinRite.
> 
> http://www.grc.com
> 
> Regards,
> Ozz.
> 

SpinRite is great (own it and highly recommend it), but it does a 
physical recovery.  But this sounds like a partition recovery 
problem.

Try TestDisk ( http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html ) 
for partition recovery.  I think this is the one I used a long while 
back to recover a damaged partition  (NTFS even) on an external 
firewire drive.

--am