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
recovering data from lost partition - HOWTO?
Re: recovering data from lost partition - HOWTO?
My recommendation is the follows:
1. Recover files from the Vista partition (as I understand, it's Recognized 11). I'd use the latest version of R-Studio.
You may find this on-line documentation helpful: http://www.unformat-unerase.com/Unforma ... index.html
2. Make an image of the disk using our R-Drive Image ( http://www.drive-image.com/ ).
3. Re-create the Vista partition.
4. Restore the rest partitions using R-Drive Image.
1. Recover files from the Vista partition (as I understand, it's Recognized 11). I'd use the latest version of R-Studio.
You may find this on-line documentation helpful: http://www.unformat-unerase.com/Unforma ... index.html
2. Make an image of the disk using our R-Drive Image ( http://www.drive-image.com/ ).
3. Re-create the Vista partition.
4. Restore the rest partitions using R-Drive Image.
Re: recovering data from lost partition - HOWTO?
Alt,
Thanks for replying.
Before acting I'd like to dig a bit deeper if possible.
I don't know if you had a look at the screenshots I posted in the link?
As it is I have:
Recognized 11 - NTFS - start 1MB - end 1.5GB
Recognized 12 - NTFS - start 1.5 GB - end 24.4 GB
Recognized 13 - NTFS - start 25.9 GB - end 24.4 GB
Recognized 14 - NTFS - start 50.3 GB - end 24.4 GB
Recognized 18 - NTFS - start 118.6 GB - end 19.5 GB
How will I guarantee file / directory / partition consistency?
Thanks for replying.
Before acting I'd like to dig a bit deeper if possible.
I don't know if you had a look at the screenshots I posted in the link?
As it is I have:
Recognized 11 - NTFS - start 1MB - end 1.5GB
Recognized 12 - NTFS - start 1.5 GB - end 24.4 GB
Recognized 13 - NTFS - start 25.9 GB - end 24.4 GB
Recognized 14 - NTFS - start 50.3 GB - end 24.4 GB
Recognized 18 - NTFS - start 118.6 GB - end 19.5 GB
How will I guarantee file / directory / partition consistency?
Re: recovering data from lost partition - HOWTO?
Yes, I saw the screenshot. I made the guess about Recognized 11.
You may use file preview to verify that this is the required partition and files can be successfully recovered from it.
See: http://www.unformat-unerase.com/Unforma ... index.html -> Data Recovery Using R-Studio -> Basic File Recovery -> Previewing Files.
You may use file preview to verify that this is the required partition and files can be successfully recovered from it.
See: http://www.unformat-unerase.com/Unforma ... index.html -> Data Recovery Using R-Studio -> Basic File Recovery -> Previewing Files.