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Originally posted by Rewandythal
I'm almost certain there are recovery tools out there somwhere, your best bet will be to put the hard disk into another computer so that its not being booted from (and so that the recovery program is not installed to that disk, overwriting some of your data). However, if the file allocation tables (or NTFS equivalent) are gone you might have a hard time trying to get data back.
I have it setup as a primary slave. I have tried it with 2000 Prof and 98 also as the boot drive. The software i have tried is R-Tools it saw all my files and partitions but wouldn't let me recover anything over 64k in size, unless i pay 50 bucks and buy the full version.
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Originally posted by petemcevoy
Hi Casper,
Could you elaborate on how you lost your partitions? Have you tried booting with the windows 2000 cd (assuming it is w2k) Or setting the disk as a slave in another w2k machine?
There is a utility called NTRecover which will allow you to access damaged ntfs partitions over a serial connection to another machine - i believe they do a trial version that will give you read only access - should be enough to copy the data over to another pc, provided you've got the patience to wait for 30 odd gig to travel over a serial cable!
I had it partitioned into 3 partitions, NT4, 2000 Prof, and files. Nt4 was 4.5Gig, 2000 Prof was 4.5gig and files were 19gig partitions. I had around 6-10 total gigs used up all together. I wanted to repartition it so i had 3, 5 gig partitions and a 15 gig partition.