It gives you a warning about the disk being initialized in Windows. (the ones i wanted to recover) as well as some old partitions from previous formats.įrom the super scan results, I right clicked those two data chunks and selected their old partition letters. I did the "super scan" on the broken HD and it found my two old partitions. Then I saw a post with someone with a similar problem, and they used Active Partition Recovery Enterprise. You might give that a shot first, since it's free. I gave up on this program, but I've heard from different sources that it does work. The problem with this for me, was that it was not recognizing any of my 3 disks, only my CD drive. This is a free shareware program that scans the disk, then recreates the MBR based on the data in the hard disk. (Still don't know the reason for why it was corrupted to begin with.) This was the correct assumption apparently.Īfter searching for a while I came across TestDisk. It was also recognized in Disk Management, so that led me to believe that the MBR and/or Partition Table were not working. It was, so I knew the disk hadn't completely crapped out. I powered down and check my bios to see if it was still recognizing the disk in question. I realized my partitions disappeared from 'My computer' (i'm running vista, btw) Maybe my process can help someone else with a similar problem so I'll recap. I got the tip from another post to get active partition recovery enterprise. My 4 day ordeal with fixing this broken disk drive has been resolved.
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