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Ok, I bought a new hard-drive because I was running out of space. Then I figured I should format the one I had so that I could have that one contain windows and all the programs while all the data could be on the new one. So I put all the data (mostly musical projects, but also a few movies/series and a lot of webpages and designs) on the new one, rebooted and checked some files, powered down, waited a while, and checked again, so I was sure the data would be there. It all worked fine. So I inserted the win xp disc. When the installation program started up, it didn't report the drive sizes correctly; it reported the new disk (500gb) as being 128gb. As I wasn't going to be touching that one, I thought that didn't matter; the program wouldn't do anything to it anyway. Well, that was wrong. When I had windows installed, I went to check the files, but the drive reported only 128gb, and it said it wasn't formatted. When I checked it with that drive management thing, it said "RAW filesystem" or something, plus a ~300gb unformatted partition. So, naturally, I started looking for programs for data restoration or whatever. I have now tried about.. nine-ten programs... they all find the files, everything looks fine, so the data haven't been lost, but they also all want money for registration so that I can recover my files.. a lot of money. Maybe enough for a corporation with lots of important files that they make money off of, but I don't have money, and none of my files will make me any money either, so I'm not really about to flesh out for a one-shot program that may not even be able to recover my files (I cracked one of them, but the files it recovers doesn't make sense, so if I had paid for that one, I would've been ripped off). Anyway, I'm running out of space. Any suggestions? Good programs? Can I "fix the partition table," as some sites suggest, but don't detail how to do? I don't know, I just want my music back... |
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why cant harddrives just fucking work? its 2007 for fuck's sake and we see this kind of shit happening daily. that said, you should have backed up your stuff on cdrom/dvd. |
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because then people wouldn't keep buying them to replace them. it's pretty sickening. drunken: try getdataback. it'll take an eternity but you'll get your files back. |
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Well, I think the hard-drive itself works. What didn't work, as far as I can tell, was the windows xp installation disc. It didn't recognise the full size of the disk (old disc), and even though I didn't do anything to the disk, to the partition, as far as I can tell from a bit of searching, it is very likely that xp just went ahead and overwrote the disk's "partition table" or something like that.. the area that tells the disk where and how large its partitions are; I believe XP is the culprit. I have now installed a new that was newer from the start, so it had support for large disks, but the disk still believes it only has one partition, 128gb, and ~300gb unpartitioned space. |
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They work but people don't. Pirate one of the software that actually works and once you make enough money send them a note and a bunch of Euros inside a registered envelope. |
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* if you ever loose your data, O&O DiskRecovery is not the way to go: It took the longest time identifying the data, only recovers "known filetypes," and it doesn't recover neither folder structure nor filename. |
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I think I tried GetDataBack, but the problem with that one was that it required money to be able to actually recover the data. I have an eternity. That O&O program used, like, 11 hours just to identify the data, and now, when it's finished, I find that everything is useless because it didn't recover the folders, but rather just put all the files in folders according to file-extension. |
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Oink. |
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Have no oink, but I may have it sorted anyway. I won't know until tomorrow, though, as it's a bit late for me to bother starting that whole process over again right now. Thanks for the suggestion, though. |
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if it's an NTFS drive, i can upload. |
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:D Thanks! I'll let you know tomorrow. Now is sleepy-time! |
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pay me and i'll sort it out for u. brothers gotta make alivin' someway... |
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It just has an unformatted partiion, get a partition manager program (acronis oartition expert is good) and either merge the empty partition with the existing one or formatt it and it should be fine with all you dat a in it- |
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Yeah, I have thought about that, but at the same time, the programs that can do that caution me to actually extract the files first, as they can get lost in the process. And if I were to merge the two partitions, I wouldn't get what I originally had, as the partition was NTFS, and the RAW partition is consequently reported as being fat16. However, I got getdataback working now, and it seems to be finding files, so hopefully it will be able to extract them. Then I can just reformat everything (putting the data on an external drive I borrowed from a mate). |
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Do you never discuss music? Only post pics and about computers? I did a search and couldn't find anything |
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Look deeper (in your soul) |
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