Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

Yes, I received. Now we are trying to figure out how to re-construct your compound disk.

Did you receive the c: drive screen print?

[quote="Narberth"]I am running a scan on the c:\ drive now. The c:\ drive has been used extensively since the reinstall of windows.[/quote]
Well, that makes chances for successful recovery worse.
But never mind, we will try.

I am running a scan on the c:\ drive now. The c:\ drive has been used extensively since the reinstall of windows. I have avoded using the external drive but i have restord files from other sources to the c drive and reinstalled programs etc. i will email the scan screen as soon as it completes.

Thanks again for your help

Most likely your Western Digital My book disk and the internal disk of your computer were combined in a compound volume. That is why the My book was formatted during Windows setup and you see negative numbers in the start position on all of your recognized partitions.
If it is so, you need to scan the disk of your computer and send the screenshots to me. Then we think what to do next.

I received the message. Well, a lot of things to think over...

I have done as you suggest but I am getting an error message when I try to upload files. I will try again later
I have senty the files to your qmail address

Thanks for your help

I don't think so, as you said that you'd seen some files from it.
1. Did you search ALL partitions for the file?
2. Did you select Search All disk on the Look in field on the Find/Mark dialog box? Sometimes large files appear not in their original places.
If answer is Yes for all the above questions, can you post here a screenshot of the Recognized partitions?
I will look at it and then ask you to post some other screenshots to try to find the file.

I have followed the instructions and searched for the TIB file but it does not appear. I am forced to the conclusion that I have lost the file. I will avoid using the external drive as long as I can in the hope that i may be missing something. Always willing to try any thing .......

General tips are simple:
1. Scan the drive (http://www.unformat-unerase.com/Unformat_Help/index.html -> Data Recovery Using R-Studio -> Advanced Data Recovery -> Disk Scan). I recommend you to save the scan info for not scanning the disk once again if you have to interrupt data recovery.
Most likely you will find two recognized partitions (one is the current on and another is the deleted one where your TIB file resided).
2. Browse through the partitions and find the TIB file. (http://www.unformat-unerase.com/Unformat_Help/index.html -> Data Recovery Using R-Studio -> Basic File Recovery -> Searching for a File).
3. Recover the TIB file. (http://www.unformat-unerase.com/Unformat_Help/index.html -> Data Recovery Using R-Studio -> Basic File Recovery).
You may perform steps 1 and 2 with the Demo version. You need to purchase R-Studio to recover the file (step 3).