Logical Drive gone after reboot,Assign new Letter or Use Tools?

[gwena]

Hi,

I have an old PC running Windows XP on C:
And a F: a 200 GB Western Digital formatted with NTFS.

The BIOS couldn’t recognize the 200 GB, but Windows XP pick it up, and I formatted it as one big NTFS partition and was using it for a few months without problem, is it ok or should I still try to upgrade the BIOS?

I got a “ The file xxxxxx.xxx is corrupted, you must run chkdsk /r ….” On the F: Drive, I couldn’t run it, and the OS asked me to reboot the machine, when rebooted the logical drive F: was gone, if I go back to Computer / Management / Disk Management I can see my drive indicated as Free (Green)

I’ve tried Partition Magic 8.01 ‘Undelete Partition’ but it does not see any deleted partition.
I’ve tried a Trial of Ontrack’s EasyRecovery Professional but it does not see any file (The starting and ending sector are the default one), 7Tools Partition Manager demo does not help also. The only Tool where I can see some of my files (but not all) is VirtualLab 4 Trial, but the cost is prohibitive (USD100 per GB)

What other tools should I try?
Should I try Computer / Management / Disk Management and New Logical Drive to assign a letter to my drive, then use some tools to try to undelete the files? If yes which tool do you recommend? Please, let me know if I should NOT use that option because I will lose everything.

Thanks a lot for any information, links etc.

Gwenael

[teddyedward]

I recently recovered important data using a good program called getdataback. There are 2 versions one for ntfs and one for fat - make sure you use the right one for your disk.

teddy

Originally Posted by gwena

Hi,

I have an old PC running Windows XP on C:
And a F: a 200 GB Western Digital formatted with NTFS.

The BIOS couldn’t recognize the 200 GB, but Windows XP pick it up, and I formatted it as one big NTFS partition and was using it for a few months without problem, is it ok or should I still try to upgrade the BIOS?

I got a “ The file xxxxxx.xxx is corrupted, you must run chkdsk /r ….” On the F: Drive, I couldn’t run it, and the OS asked me to reboot the machine, when rebooted the logical drive F: was gone, if I go back to Computer / Management / Disk Management I can see my drive indicated as Free (Green)

I’ve tried Partition Magic 8.01 ‘Undelete Partition’ but it does not see any deleted partition.
I’ve tried a Trial of Ontrack’s EasyRecovery Professional but it does not see any file (The starting and ending sector are the default one), 7Tools Partition Manager demo does not help also. The only Tool where I can see some of my files (but not all) is VirtualLab 4 Trial, but the cost is prohibitive (USD100 per GB)

What other tools should I try?
Should I try Computer / Management / Disk Management and New Logical Drive to assign a letter to my drive, then use some tools to try to undelete the files? If yes which tool do you recommend? Please, let me know if I should NOT use that option because I will lose everything.

Thanks a lot for any information, links etc.

Gwenael