Question regarding RAW HDD recovery

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Hi all,

I messed up a hard drive while making a partition, and now the hard drive needs formatting as it is in "RAW state". I'm using EasyRecovery Professional, and one of the options was RAW recovery. The files have been recovering for about an hour so far.

I'm just a bit concerned because the files that were on the HDD are being indexed according to file type, and not location?

http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=3049.

http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=3050.

Will I be okay? Will they get sorted out once recovery is complete? :confused:
 
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I'm afraid I was never able to recover my info that I lost using Partition Magic. Wasn't even working on the physical hdd that it erased!
This was a while ago tho..
 
The raw recovery feature on EasyRecovery Professional will not detect any file structure and only look for extensions.

What happened to the drive, have you tried the standard file system recovery ?
 
Coza said:
The raw recovery feature on EasyRecovery Professional will not detect any file structure and only look for extensions.

What happened to the drive, have you tried the standard file system recovery ?
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Was installing Ubuntu and it fscked out while partitioning the drive. Wanted to create a small .ext partition for Ubuntu, on the NTFS drive.

I will try other recovery modes once this is complete... in 3 hours. :(
 
if you only messed up the partitioning, you can easily recover!

just redo the partitioning as it was before and everything will be back to normal. i've made this mistake a couple of times while trying to resize partitions (using fdisk).

make sure that start and end sectors of each partition is 100% spot on. if you didn't write the values down before you started messing with the drive and don't have a backup, the data on their is obviously not that important :)
 
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andres101 said:
if you only messed up the partitioning, you can easily recover!

just redo the partitioning as it was before and everything will be back to normal. i've made this mistake a couple of times while trying to resize partitions (using fdisk).

make sure that start and end sectors of each partition is 100% spot on. if you didn't write the values down before you started messing with the drive and don't have a backup, the data on their is obviously not that important :)
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Ja, something with the sectors messed it up. Recovery program only found a small NTFS partition which contained old crap I didn't need.

Oh well, just lost a few games, saves and apps. Have since reinstalled everything and I'm feeling alright.

Thank goodness that's all I had on the HDD. :)
 
@ postman - weird, as I had installed ubuntu or suse 10.3 on a winders PC, and it resized the partitions 100% without any trouble.

Maybe you didn't had enough free space on the winders partition for a resize - OR the files was too fragmented and you had file and folder compression enabled...
 
The_Librarian said:
@ postman - weird, as I had installed ubuntu or suse 10.3 on a winders PC, and it resized the partitions 100% without any trouble.

Maybe you didn't had enough free space on the winders partition for a resize - OR the files was too fragmented and you had file and folder compression enabled...
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Yeah, I've installed Ubuntu/resized partitions before without hassles. There was about 60 out of 80GB free space.

Last time I created an ext3 partition on HDD with Partition Magic before install, perhaps next time I'll do the same.
 
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