Hi everyone!
Im another victim [250GB of music, piracy and backup]; besides watching for viruses [and other nocive stuff] we have to protect from M Windows XP.
things that WONT work:
Spinrite: boot disk [only good to recover from physically damaged sectors; i tried this]
EasyRecovery Professional: [a lot of options to recover from deleted files and partition but even in "raw recovery" mode uses the damaged partition table information, so: wont work.
Acronis PartitionExpert: will probably notice inconsistences in the partition table but just can't fix it.
Paragon PartitionManager v8: hasn't even options to deal with data corruption.
DataDoctorRecovery v2.x: [for Windows and NTFS] Plain waste of time and buggy-to-use program only useful for recover deleted files even when there are a lot of more-useful options instead.
things that COULD work [im currently reading a lot of manuals, guides and papers]
Powerquest PartitionMagic: A friend of mine has my installation CD. Low expectations.
AccessData Forensic Toolkit v1.5: Need to learn a lot of things before trying [
http://www.acquisitiondata.com/white...phanfiles.pdf]. Good expectations.
Got a lot of work to do this week, i'll try to post my experiences later. Good luck guys!