We put in a new hard drive,partitioned it out, and moved data to it. later we increased the partition size and all data was lost. Does anyone know how to recover that data?
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We put in a new hard drive,partitioned it out, and moved data to it. later we increased the partition size and all data was lost. Does anyone know how to recover that data?
YES!!!
I had the same problem, disk was totally unusable. I bought a program called Lost and Found, ran it and it recovered ALL my data. I cannot praise this program too much! I had tried all the usual utilities with no luck.
The program is from PowerQuest, the makers of Partition Magic and, as it was their program in batch mode that caused the problem, it's only fair that they get the brickbats as well as the bouquets.
Don't run Partition Magic in batch mode with multiple jobs - run one job at a time. Especially, if you use v4 to convert FAT32 back to FAT, make sure the partition is < 2Gb and has plenty of free space - say 500Mb at least. Other than that, the program is very good.
Lost and Found works - despite all the advertising hype. Buy it!
PS. It only works on one computer. There is a more expensive, multi-PC version if you want to turn it into a business.
PPS. I have no connection with Power Quest. I am just a humble, and very grateful, user.