Can I commit suicide now?

[Catal]

That sounds insane!!!

Well done!

Let's just say I'm never going to install the Intel Rapid Storage driver again You see the workstation mobo was destroyed by lightning and I had to build a new system in one day, so when installing the Win7 drivers of the new mobo I also installed the Intel Rapid Storage driver, like I always do without problems.

But in this case the Intel driver mirrored the partition table of the one 1.5 TB to the other 1.5 TB upon reboot, really weird. Thinking that it was a bad Win7 install when I got a BSOD upon reboot, I decided to install Win7 again, but this time on an empty partition of the other 1.5 TB. And surely, that drive's partition table also got corrupted. Double whammy, if there ever was a time I felt suicidal it was that day, mainly because I was really tired and things just seemed to get worse by the minute.

Anyway, just stay calm.

 

[T-Man]

Utmost worse case scenario, take your device to a data recovery expert with a clean room to do some recovery.

Is a cleanroom not only require when they have to open the drive? OP stated he deleted a partition - drive should still be OK. Some good recovery software should do the trick.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

I used Linux before, Fedora Live CD, to recover files from a corrupt partition. If you have Fedora or Ubuntu Live CD, you can try and see if you can pick up anything.

Have a look at this, just found this, maybe something in there that can help.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Bleh.

Hope Tera assisted you there.

 

[Romito]

Had the same dilemma a year ago when I accidentally deleted my 500gb drive and realised afterwards. All I did was format it as it was without any changes, installed xp sp2 and Ontrack Data Recovery software and got hold of another same size drive to recover to and all my data was fully restored. Only down side to this if you don't have a spare drive to recover to, gotta buy a new one.

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[NeonNinja]

Went to work. Now to see if I can cook something. Thanks guys.

 

[NeonNinja]

R-Studio looks promising, it shows me my exact partitions.

Unfortunately it recovers 0 files. Sigh...

Information System 2011/12/11 11:35:07 AM Recover files started
Information Recover 2011/12/11 11:35:17 AM Successfully restored: 0 files. Failed: 0 files.
Information System 2011/12/11 11:35:17 AM Recover files completed
Information System 2011/12/11 11:36:28 AM Scanning drive Disk1-05 started
Information System 2011/12/11 11:36:46 AM Scan has been completed for Disk1-05 in 17s
Information System 2011/12/11 11:36:46 AM Scanning drive Disk1-05 canceled
Information System 2011/12/11 11:37:06 AM Recover files started
Information Recover 2011/12/11 11:37:23 AM Successfully restored: 0 files. Failed: 0 files.
Information System 2011/12/11 11:37:23 AM Recover files completed
Information System 2011/12/11 11:38:30 AM Recover files started
Information Recover 2011/12/11 11:38:56 AM Successfully restored: 0 files. Failed: 0 files.
Information System 2011/12/11 11:38:56 AM Recover files completed
Information System 2011/12/11 11:40:12 AM Scanning drive SAMSUNG HM500JI2AC101C4 started
Information System 2011/12/11 11:40:20 AM Scan has been completed for SAMSUNG HM500JI2AC101C4 in 8s
Information System 2011/12/11 11:40:21 AM Scanning drive SAMSUNG HM500JI2AC101C4 canceled
Information System 2011/12/11 11:40:34 AM Scanning drive Disk1-05 started
Information System 2011/12/11 11:47:13 AM Scan has been completed for Disk1-05 in 6m 39s
Information System 2011/12/11 11:47:13 AM Scanning drive Disk1-05 completed
Information System 2011/12/11 11:48:50 AM Recover files started
Information Recover 2011/12/11 11:49:04 AM Successfully restored: 0 files. Failed: 0 files.
Information System 2011/12/11 11:49:04 AM Recover files completed

Edit, I just selected open files, there were they! Thanks teraside. Is there a file limitation? I can't seem to recover my 7.5GB NFS. Well maybe I shouldn't moan, I can recover all my music at least.

 

[|tera|]

Edit, I just selected open files, there were they! Thanks teraside. Is there a file limitation? I can't seem to recover my 7.5GB NFS.

I doubt there is a file limitation. I would suggest getting the most important data, then go step by step through the files you need as well, possibly google any error codes etc.

The file limitation could be on the "destination" drive if it's FAT32 though, it has a file limit of 4GB.

 

[NeonNinja]

NTFS, But thanks anyways, got all my music.

 

[Killer]

GDB works well.

 

[ZAFluffyBunny]

I always use Recuva... Saved my ass more than once