Partition Magic crashed. Recovery with R-Studio
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:55 am
Hello,
I wanted to change the size of my data partition using Partition Magic 8 under XP SP3. When the progress bar was at about 14% the PC crashed. Since then I'm not able to access the drive under Windows.
I installed R-Studio and analyzed the partition. Now I can see the folder structure and the files, even with their correct name. But when I recover files (<64kB) many of them are broken. When I open those files with a hex editor the beginnings of the files seem ok, but in the end I can see content form other files, e.g. email content at the end of an Eagle schematic (*.sch). Opening of such files fails with an error message from the corresponding programme.
Is there any setting I must consider or any other trick I could try? I don't want to purchase the software before I see a further chance of success
Best regards,
Michael
I wanted to change the size of my data partition using Partition Magic 8 under XP SP3. When the progress bar was at about 14% the PC crashed. Since then I'm not able to access the drive under Windows.
I installed R-Studio and analyzed the partition. Now I can see the folder structure and the files, even with their correct name. But when I recover files (<64kB) many of them are broken. When I open those files with a hex editor the beginnings of the files seem ok, but in the end I can see content form other files, e.g. email content at the end of an Eagle schematic (*.sch). Opening of such files fails with an error message from the corresponding programme.
Is there any setting I must consider or any other trick I could try? I don't want to purchase the software before I see a further chance of success
Best regards,
Michael