How can I recover my drive?

[theguy]

My power went out on my computer while I was adding space to my D drive which has all my files on it. Errors were on it. I ran Windows Disk Error checking thing and it took out alot of my stuff, including my 3000 music files, my episodes of various TV shows and other things that I can't get back or will be hard. Is there any way to recover my drive so everything will be back on there. Please, is there any way...

theguy

[theguy]

When I go to Properties and look at the drive space, it's the exact same... It's still only 27 gigs of free spaces and 54 gigs of used which it was before the error recovery tool... HOw can I recover... PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!

[theguy]

I have two drives, C and D...

C is 10 gig and holds my windows stuff..
D is 80 something gig and holds my music, movies, appz, and stuff like that.

I also had Linux on here... I deleted it and was going to add the extra 20 gigs I have partitioned to it to my D drive... I also think I was converting it to a NTFS file system... I think... I can't remember right now because I feel like I'm gonna have a heart attack. So I'm doing that and my power goes out. When I reboot it said an error had happened and continued booting into windows. When I go into my D drive, there are strange letters and symbols and for many of the files. I use the Error Checking thing windows has, and it.... I can't really explain it... I had a music folder, and now there's a 32kb music file that is a strange file type... And it did that to lots of my folders, so they're inaccessable, where my files are... But... my D drive says that 54 gigs of it are still full, which was the same before this happened...



It says for like the folders...

Type of file: File

I think I was converting to NTFS too... But when I go into Partition Magic it says D: still FAT32... So I think it might have been when I was converting to NTFS...

Do you think if I convert it to NTFS successfully, I will beable to get to my files again?
Because like, some of my files are still ok on my D drive... So yea... I'm gonna have a freaking heart attack here.

[sjohnson]

What tool were you using? If I read your posts right, you originally had 3 partitions - a C, a D and a Linux partition.

Then, you used *something* to reclaim the Linux partition space and ADD it into the D partition. Right?

Plus, maybe you were running a conversion from, say FAT to NTFS?

Hate to say it, but if my assumptions are right you're close to FUBAR. Have you checked with the tool's site to see what they recommend?

[theguy]

Yea.... I dunno what happened... It looks like I can recover it... I ran VirtualLab, and it showed all my files, but I had to pay... So now I'm running PC Inspector tro recover them... Hopefully this one is free...

[Kurupt]

I can do a data recovery on it.. If you can send me your drive and pay shipping.

LMK

Must of all the big people here know who I'm =P

[Nohto]

Kurupt is trustworthy, from what I've read a heard. I used a data recovery tool to save my girlfriends son's 80 gig drive. Whatever you do, don't change anything on the drive because that wilol further damage it. I used 2 different tools: GetDataBack and Restorer_2000_Pro. Can't remember which one recovered more data, but I saved both recoverys and let him sift through it. It doesn't recover it back to the original format, but it will pull out the usable data and you can store that into a new file on a new drive.

[Kurupt]

Yea just becareful... If you run those programs they can damage your drive to a point of no recovery... As Nohto was stated above.