Disk recovery software?
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I decided I was going to install Visa on my PC last night, only problem was not enough free space on my primary partition. So, being the diligent IT worker that I am, I hooked up a hard drive from one of my other PC's, formatted it and moved all my precious My Documents files onto it. I didn't want to be to poor sucker who lost everything because I resized a partition with all my files on it. Not me, no way! After about 45 minutes of copying (lots of music and photos), the job was done. Into computer management I go and delete the old partition, thinking, for some reason, that windows would allow me to expand the primary partition into the unallocated space. Not so. Then I fired up Partition Magic to do the resizing, but it had some disturbing news to report. The new drive I added, now with all my files, was reporting a partion type of Bad. I opened the new drive in explorer, no problems there, I could still see all my files. But, just to be safe, I recreated the partition I had just deleted so I could copy everything back and start again. It didn't work. The partition I recreated, was as I expected, empty. My new drive, with all my stuff, was now inaccessible. :doh: So, can anyone recommend some good disk recovery software? Cheers, Anthony.
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I decided I was going to install Visa on my PC last night, only problem was not enough free space on my primary partition. So, being the diligent IT worker that I am, I hooked up a hard drive from one of my other PC's, formatted it and moved all my precious My Documents files onto it. I didn't want to be to poor sucker who lost everything because I resized a partition with all my files on it. Not me, no way! After about 45 minutes of copying (lots of music and photos), the job was done. Into computer management I go and delete the old partition, thinking, for some reason, that windows would allow me to expand the primary partition into the unallocated space. Not so. Then I fired up Partition Magic to do the resizing, but it had some disturbing news to report. The new drive I added, now with all my files, was reporting a partion type of Bad. I opened the new drive in explorer, no problems there, I could still see all my files. But, just to be safe, I recreated the partition I had just deleted so I could copy everything back and start again. It didn't work. The partition I recreated, was as I expected, empty. My new drive, with all my stuff, was now inaccessible. :doh: So, can anyone recommend some good disk recovery software? Cheers, Anthony.
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I decided I was going to install Visa on my PC last night, only problem was not enough free space on my primary partition. So, being the diligent IT worker that I am, I hooked up a hard drive from one of my other PC's, formatted it and moved all my precious My Documents files onto it. I didn't want to be to poor sucker who lost everything because I resized a partition with all my files on it. Not me, no way! After about 45 minutes of copying (lots of music and photos), the job was done. Into computer management I go and delete the old partition, thinking, for some reason, that windows would allow me to expand the primary partition into the unallocated space. Not so. Then I fired up Partition Magic to do the resizing, but it had some disturbing news to report. The new drive I added, now with all my files, was reporting a partion type of Bad. I opened the new drive in explorer, no problems there, I could still see all my files. But, just to be safe, I recreated the partition I had just deleted so I could copy everything back and start again. It didn't work. The partition I recreated, was as I expected, empty. My new drive, with all my stuff, was now inaccessible. :doh: So, can anyone recommend some good disk recovery software? Cheers, Anthony.
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I decided I was going to install Visa on my PC last night, only problem was not enough free space on my primary partition. So, being the diligent IT worker that I am, I hooked up a hard drive from one of my other PC's, formatted it and moved all my precious My Documents files onto it. I didn't want to be to poor sucker who lost everything because I resized a partition with all my files on it. Not me, no way! After about 45 minutes of copying (lots of music and photos), the job was done. Into computer management I go and delete the old partition, thinking, for some reason, that windows would allow me to expand the primary partition into the unallocated space. Not so. Then I fired up Partition Magic to do the resizing, but it had some disturbing news to report. The new drive I added, now with all my files, was reporting a partion type of Bad. I opened the new drive in explorer, no problems there, I could still see all my files. But, just to be safe, I recreated the partition I had just deleted so I could copy everything back and start again. It didn't work. The partition I recreated, was as I expected, empty. My new drive, with all my stuff, was now inaccessible. :doh: So, can anyone recommend some good disk recovery software? Cheers, Anthony.
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I decided I was going to install Visa on my PC last night, only problem was not enough free space on my primary partition. So, being the diligent IT worker that I am, I hooked up a hard drive from one of my other PC's, formatted it and moved all my precious My Documents files onto it. I didn't want to be to poor sucker who lost everything because I resized a partition with all my files on it. Not me, no way! After about 45 minutes of copying (lots of music and photos), the job was done. Into computer management I go and delete the old partition, thinking, for some reason, that windows would allow me to expand the primary partition into the unallocated space. Not so. Then I fired up Partition Magic to do the resizing, but it had some disturbing news to report. The new drive I added, now with all my files, was reporting a partion type of Bad. I opened the new drive in explorer, no problems there, I could still see all my files. But, just to be safe, I recreated the partition I had just deleted so I could copy everything back and start again. It didn't work. The partition I recreated, was as I expected, empty. My new drive, with all my stuff, was now inaccessible. :doh: So, can anyone recommend some good disk recovery software? Cheers, Anthony.
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I decided I was going to install Visa on my PC last night, only problem was not enough free space on my primary partition. So, being the diligent IT worker that I am, I hooked up a hard drive from one of my other PC's, formatted it and moved all my precious My Documents files onto it. I didn't want to be to poor sucker who lost everything because I resized a partition with all my files on it. Not me, no way! After about 45 minutes of copying (lots of music and photos), the job was done. Into computer management I go and delete the old partition, thinking, for some reason, that windows would allow me to expand the primary partition into the unallocated space. Not so. Then I fired up Partition Magic to do the resizing, but it had some disturbing news to report. The new drive I added, now with all my files, was reporting a partion type of Bad. I opened the new drive in explorer, no problems there, I could still see all my files. But, just to be safe, I recreated the partition I had just deleted so I could copy everything back and start again. It didn't work. The partition I recreated, was as I expected, empty. My new drive, with all my stuff, was now inaccessible. :doh: So, can anyone recommend some good disk recovery software? Cheers, Anthony.