But I want to find a proper solution to these kind of problems.
So I have not deleted the partition and still want to recover it.
The point behind it is that when every thing is correct and in place then only MBR and the Partition table needs to be modified.
So what modification can result in correcting it ?
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Pranav Peshwe <pranavpeshwe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Rishi,
If you have recovered *all* your data from the partition then, you can just delete the partition (using fdisk) and create a new one in the same place. Then, format it with whatever filesystem you want and start using it.
Hope, i am not missing anything :-?
- POn Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Rishi Bhushan Agrawal <postrishi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I could recover all the files using the "testdisk" program on windows.
I would like to proceed with correcting the MBR and the partition table.
How do i do it ??--On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Pranav Peshwe <pranavpeshwe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:25 AM, rishi agrawal <postrishi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Sorry for the previous mails....
I tried a NTFS recovery tool named as
1st NTFS Recovery 3.3.1.0( evaluation Version).
It is very good. It took out the whole directory structure correctly. The only problem is that in order to access the files I need to pay for it and I dont want to do that.
As the directory structure is correct it is proved that the partition is untouched and correct and simple MBR manipulations can result in recovering the drive correctly.
I am quite hesitant to do anything without a clear cut idea as i may lose the data.
Although it is off-topic on this list - i would suggest a simple thing here since you seem to have valuable data on the disk. Before you use any tools for recovery, create a raw copy(image) of the entire partition on another hard disk. The dd command in linux/unix will be useful for doing that. Once you have the image, you can mount it (in linux or any other OS of your choice) and experiment on it in various ways. This way, you won't risk losing your data in case, any tool behaves badly.
Best regards,
Pranav
http://pranavsbrain.peshwe.com
Regards,
Rishi B. Agrawal
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Regards,
Rishi B. Agrawal
