gwendes Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Hi everyone, A student teacher has asked me to recover what I can from her laptop. After a day of running various utils on it I noticed that the drive wsa a lot smaller than actually printed on the drive. Disk Management recognises TWO drives so I'm guessing her data is on the other. The drive does not have a letter assigned and show with FAT32 Healthy (Unknown Partition) . Anyone know a simple way to allocate a drive letter. Right - click only gives the option to delete the partition... Thanks!
Abaddon Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 I use O&O Disk recovery tools for this sort of thing - can recover deleted partitions, formatted drives, or damaged drives that show nothing at all... been fairly successful, and cost less than £100 for educational license.
gwendes Posted January 17, 2007 Author Posted January 17, 2007 I jsut ran gparted linux and was able to remove a 'hidden' flag o the drive. Not holding out too much hope that her data is there anymore - think it's a Packard Bell restore image
mattx Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 You got a copy of ghost ? If so - run GDISK - there is a switch on there to hide and unhide partitions. /HIDE /-HIDE Its all command line driven so you may need to boot to a command line. If you have not got Gdisk - drop me a note, I'll send it to you...
gwendes Posted January 17, 2007 Author Posted January 17, 2007 It was just some restore files from the manufacturer. Has anyone got any suggestions for some free recovery software? I ran PC Inspector File Recovery on the suggestion from a colleague but don't know how to restore the recovered clusters into files. The drive is reported as healthy - I think something from Limewire has messed with her assignments The other strange thing that I noticed - she knows nothing about it - it a network drive called Hotmail on 'NetDrive' X:
mattx Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Best results for lost data I have had I was using: http://www.recovermyfiles.com/ Thing is you have to pay for it. Or do something very naughty to use it.... For free stuff, check out: http://free-backup.info/data-recovery-software.htm
gwendes Posted January 17, 2007 Author Posted January 17, 2007 I used PC Inspector and have 'recovered' over 4Gb of lost files. They are all in clusters of 1472Kb - Does anyone know how to restore the actual files from these?
Ben_Stanton Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 I've used stella phoenix on many occasions with very great success. I think yu can download a trial from the site... I have heard of some sites that provide cracks (whatever they are)... I of course have a fully legitimate copy and would not recommend anything other than that...
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