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cam · 19-06-2006, 12:58

So, my 'media' drive (160GB SATA) has decided to become a gayer. Basically the drive is still visible but Windows claims it isn't formatted. I think either the partition table or MBR has been corrupted. I've tried running chkdsk which usually fails after a good few hours.

Booted into knoppix but as it's NTFS it wasn't too keen on it.

Was having a look at Stellar Phoenix, the demo version of which certainly found all my files okay, but I've no idea if it'll actually recover them.

Any tips, help, welcome.

pgo · 19-06-2006, 13:16

Some of the people over at Something Awful run a small wiki-ish thing:

http://shsc.info/DataRecovery

May be helpful.

cam · 19-06-2006, 13:53

Will check out some of the software listed there, thanks PGO.

Still interested to hear from anyone that's used anything firsthand

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pgo i'm done, son Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 12,262	Some of the people over at Something Awful run a small wiki-ish thing: http://shsc.info/DataRecovery May be helpful.

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