Recovering A Lost Windows Partition

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A few months ago my home server lost all of my MP3’s from a share.  I was freak­ing out think­ing some process had mag­i­cally deleted them.  Then I noticed the par­ti­tion was miss­ing.   I spent a few days bang­ing my head against the wall try­ing to recover the data and noth­ing helped.   Since I’m a lis­tener of Secu­rity Now, I attempted to use Spin Rite on the drive, even this didn’t help it.   I was freak­ing out.

I set aside the drive and re-addressed it yes­ter­day.  A friend of mine had a copy of Par­ti­tion Doc­tor 3.5 and we ran it against my drive.   In a mat­ter of min­utes we man­aged to get the drive back up and all of the MP3’s were there.   Nei­ther my wife and I were too anx­ious to go through the 2–3 week rip­ping process we did last time when we re-ripped at a higher bit rate.

This is not a pro­mo­tion, I get no money from the links you click, if how­ever you do have an issue with a lost win­dows par­ti­tion, try Par­ti­tion Doctor’s demo ver­sion and it will show you if it can be recovered.

January 2, 2009 | Creeva | Tags: , , , , , | View Comments
  • Thanks for the heads up. I once had the same problem and used Get Data Back NTFS to help me out. However I copied all data on a bit-per-bit base to another disk and it took a few DAYS to copy around 500GB of data this way...
  • mine was 150gb of data - I can image the pain. It's good to have another product listed here that can do the same thing (albeit it seems slower) - the drive was good according ot spin rite - just no data - though this weekend I'm making a mirror copy of the data just in case.

    I originally thought this would have been a lot easier to do then it was. I just thought I would get this into the Google search results to make it easier for people with the same stupid problem.
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