recovering data from lost partition - HOWTO?
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:17 am
Hi forum,
I have a laptop hd of 160 GB. It is partitioned in several partitions using various filesystems, most NTFS and Linux.
One of the first if not the first partition was a Vista partition.
Off and on I have been using BootITng as a boot manager.
Now and again I install 'some' operating system to do some tests.
Most of the time the new OS overwrites MBR and thus BootIT does not come up anymore.
I realize at such moment I should recover BootIT asap with it's own install disk/CD
But as it happened the OS bootmanager that installed also functioned quite well so, no immediate reason to reactivate BootIT.
Now it seems my Vista partition has disappeared / become invisible.
I took out the hd and connected it to a desktop PC and let R-Studio do a discovery.
The result is in the attached screenshot.
It seems most of the Vista files are still there.
Now my question:
What approach would you recommend to salvage this data?
Any chance to recover the complete partition and make it bootable again?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Erwin
(Using R-Studio 2.0 build 121047)
PS. I seem to be unable to upload screenshots.
Also seems linking is disabled also...
So instead have a look here: http://www.ipanini.com/R-Studio/index.htm
I have a laptop hd of 160 GB. It is partitioned in several partitions using various filesystems, most NTFS and Linux.
One of the first if not the first partition was a Vista partition.
Off and on I have been using BootITng as a boot manager.
Now and again I install 'some' operating system to do some tests.
Most of the time the new OS overwrites MBR and thus BootIT does not come up anymore.
I realize at such moment I should recover BootIT asap with it's own install disk/CD
But as it happened the OS bootmanager that installed also functioned quite well so, no immediate reason to reactivate BootIT.
Now it seems my Vista partition has disappeared / become invisible.
I took out the hd and connected it to a desktop PC and let R-Studio do a discovery.
The result is in the attached screenshot.
It seems most of the Vista files are still there.
Now my question:
What approach would you recommend to salvage this data?
Any chance to recover the complete partition and make it bootable again?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Erwin
(Using R-Studio 2.0 build 121047)
PS. I seem to be unable to upload screenshots.
Also seems linking is disabled also...
So instead have a look here: http://www.ipanini.com/R-Studio/index.htm