Recovering lost files?

[happyhamster]

Hello,
In the process of replacing Win2000 with Mandrake 7.0 MBR on HD has been corrupted badly, so I lost all partition info. I'm now trying to recover some data files from those partitions. I used fdisk /mbr, which restored one of the partitions, but converted the second into unpartitioned space. The data is still there. I did some research, found Lost&Found from Powerquest. However, I'd really appreciate any advice from more experienced guys about what tools to use/ how to proceed.

Thank you.

[psyklone]

what type of partition are you trying to recover the information from?

[happyhamster]

The drive had 2 partitions,
1) NTFS
2) FAT16
fdisk /mbr restored NTFS, and converted FAT16 into unpartitioned space. I'm now trying to recover data files from this FAT16 partition

[alien_from_io]

I worked storm watch all night, so I may be dim. If you've got NT, you're lucky, cause there is a lot of utilities that recover nt deleted files. Go to www.go.com/ (http://www.go.com/) or www.zd.net/ (http://www.zd.net/) and in the search box put in "nt recover" or whatever. On 98, I've only found one utility for share, "Recover98Express"ver1.0.1, iIt requires the temporary use of another HD and it's only good for a few uses. If any files have been overwritten you can forget ever getting them. (there is another member who's pretending to be a NSA Operative, HE CAN get the disc read unless you have used something like "bc wipe" and overwritten at least seven to 26 times) hope this helps, Take me to your leader.

[Richard_Cranium72]

ON Nt, don't know for sure but I've transfered some files with another HD on 98. Some that will transfer are pic's, mpg's, av's, word, ms/dos files/games, web pages. What you can't transfer,(at least I don't know how), are items that were set up and the exe files are gone or items that the registry has critical files. Hook up the second hd on the same cable, move the HD jumpers in the center cable location to "S" and the one on the end to "M". Then open my computer and open both "c" and "d", open Windows and Program files and copy to a new folder on the other hd...am I driveling, again? hope this helps, somehow. DrVette

[This message has been edited by Richard_Cranium72 (edited 01-29-2000).]