i have a 120gb divided into 3 partitions. i've accidentally damaged my 2nd partition. the 1rst and 3rd partition was successfully recovered by scandisk. please help? what free prog can i use to recover it? explorer recognizes the drive but it says that it is corrupted/unreadable and on the property it says raw. can i delete the partition and recover it again? thanks.

i believe this is a free shareware for trial

http://www.pcnet-online.com/downloads/hddregerator.htm

it should regenerate the partion but yet i havnt ever tried it

best of luck

I use partition magic it is not free but it is the best. But if you search for a disc called "Ultimate Boot Disc" there is a series of utilities on there which would help, and this is free

Even though it is not free, try EasyRecovery Professional by Ontrack Data International.... it can almost recover anything... RAW, Deleted, Format, and more.

http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html

Try this its free so get wat ya paid for

@dirtwarrior
@Carmon
Partition Magic does NOT repair damaged partitions.
By using it on a drive with a possibly damaged partition you could make things MUCH worse.


@Lost Soul
HDD regenerator does NOT repair damaged partitions.
By using it on a drive with a possibly damaged partition you could make things MUCH worse.

@angel0104
Here you need a data recovery tool.
The best FREEWARE one is TESTDISK:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

Make sure you READ the docs before using it.

Even if Testdisk fails in recovering the partition, the (included in the download) PHOTOREC might be able to recover most of the files in the partition.

Read these too:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=43132
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=49303

jaclaz

u can try partition table doctor.btw @jac i mite be wrong but partition magic has a recovery tool of a damaged partition

the first thing

what would u like to recover
the date or
the partition

data:
easy recovery (best : pay software )

Partition:
windows disk administration ( windows built in )
Acronis recovery expert (best but pay software)
Acronis recovery expert

best soln:
why don't u format the disk or delete and recreate

Once and for all, Partition Magic is NOT capable of RECOVERY of a damaged partition or of the data within it:
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/features.html
It is a tool to create/tune/resize/modify/change/split/merge partitions, it also includes a boot manager.
By using the recovery floppies it is possible IN A VERY SMALL NUMBER of cases, to undelete a partition, that's all.

It is the direct match with Acronis Partition Manager and Acronis Boot Manager, NOT with Acronis Recovery Expert, which is a good app to recover data/partitions.

Windows Disk Administration CANNOT recover partitions, using it may result in losing any chance of recovery.

As said in the linked posts and elsewhere on the board, there are just two FREEWARE data/partition recovery tools:
TESTDISK (and PHOTOREC)
http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.html
and
PC INSPECTOR FILE RECOVERY
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Then there are tens of COMMERCIAL ones.

There are also tens if not hundreds of FREEWARE and COMMERCIAL tools for the "professionals" or "very advanced users" to manually recover data, but the use of them needs a deep knowledge of how hard disks, filesystems and records work.

jaclaz

May be the boot sector or FAT/ MFT are corrupt. Don't format,
use some tool to fix it.

I suggest you use Partition Table Doctor to fix boot sector.

First thing I recommend you download the demo version of
Partition Table Doctor.( http://www.ptdd.com/download.htm )

Run the program and right click the partition and choose fixboot.

For more detail:
http://www.ptdd.com/fixboot.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/mbr.htm
http://www.ptdd.com

Try this one: http://www.soft32.com/download_19488.html

Holy thread resurrection!

This thread is from 2005.

jaclaz