on the date 08 jan. 2006 in the afternoon I had a unexpected message onto my display, HDD corrupte (maxtor IDE). I have one SATA WD160G (with 3 partition, first one with windows system) and one IDE Maxtor 80G. The message corruption was about my IDE HDD (the slave one). Ok, I restarted and checked the power supply, the response was same... I did it again...and same, I did it again without IDE and no problem with SATA. I put back the IDE and no more booting PC. No video signal, just power supply for modules...
No problem I gave motherboard back to service and it was changed. Now with the new motherboard I see my IDE HDD corrupted and the 3rd partition from SATA unformated. I hate this, because most of my documents was on that partition. After 2 days later one of my friend which was connected with me in LAN called me to give me the bad news, he saw unformated partition too.
Now trying to recover files, the corrupted HDD (IDE) about 95% recovered very well, but the unformated partition from HDD (SATA) recovered just 5% most of all recovered files corrupted and unusable.
Do you have any solution for recovering my data? I didn't used my faulty partition and HDD from that moment. I suspect a virus. What was happen really?
I used easyrecovery 6.3 file. Using Advance recover I saw my faulty partition as 2 partitions. Falty partition initial with initial space of 60G, I saw using easyrecovery 1 partition of 6G and another one 53G. Yesterday I tried with winhex to do something, but with this one I saw my faulty partition just as 6G.
I think that MBR or MFT are affected but I don't know so many things about this tables... can you please help me, I did nothing with this HDD and it was happen unexpected....
r-studio is excellent it found files on my hard drive that were before at least 2-3 formats and reinstall of windows previous, but u have to buy it to recover anything. it may at least show u if the files are recoverable.
google search for data recovery software and try a few different software packages, most will scan and give results for free. if u cannot get any software to show files and u REALLY want to get your files back there are specialist companies that will do it for u for a price of course.
another option is to reformat the bad partitions with the SAME file system that was on it before(I presume they were only storage with no operating system on them) then the files 'might' show up, if not try scanning again after format.
Try a load of data recovery scanners before u format though as this might get rid of them for good.
First of all I wanna say to you that I prefer to recover myself than to go to a company to do it. In my country a student is more specialist than a company, and why to not do myself what any other company want to do for recovery? I want to learn through this problem.
There are many possibilities to recover but I want to choose the best...you know, a raw recover can recover a big part of files but not with their name, and an advance recover is recovering the real name, but most of them corrupted.
I feel that the problem is MBR or MFT. Another solution could be to format another partition at another HDD same as corrupted one, and making a copy of data. But you know my corrupted partition is seen under easy recover as 2 parts, 1 of 6GB and another one the rest, this coulf be a part of bad MBR. How can I access MFT or mirror MFT? I want to read a detailed document about all HDD structure.
