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- Apr 26, 2004
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- The Netherlands
Hey guys, long time no see. Unfortunatly i have no time for babble as i am in need of help, and expert help.
Case is this:
A few weeks ago my fathers pc stopped working all of a sudden, windows BSOD upon boot. As i was going to leave for holiday in a few days i advised him to take it to a PC store and have them fix it. They indeed fixed it by reinstalling windows but at the same time removing most of his data. The shops owner says he cannot recall which of the techies worked on it and even claimed that 'they would never do that' but thats rather irrelevant at this time as i've got some data that needs to be salvaged.
There were three HDD's in the system of which two were affected. One contained the original Windows XP installation and, on a separate partition, a large number of 'private' files including hand-ins andresults of students of my father, many school-related documents of my brother and sister and a large number of photographs. The second one contained mostyl larger audio and video files. Both drives' partition tables seem to have been changed and probably been formatted (unsure on format type).
First one to scream 'backup' will recieve a swift kick in the nuts, cause that has been done but the most recent one is from a few months ago.
The PC hasn't been used since he noticed that the files were missing so they *should* still be there, remains the question how to get to them. These are the drives:
WD2000. 200GB, SATA, NTFS
Maxtor DM10 300GB, SATA, NTFS
Right now one of them is in my main computer being scanned by R-studio, a recovery program someone advised me, but its halfway the drive now and hasnt come up with any files as far as i can see. I could use some advice as to what software to use and more specifically, how, cause i have little experience with data recovery like this.
Case is this:
A few weeks ago my fathers pc stopped working all of a sudden, windows BSOD upon boot. As i was going to leave for holiday in a few days i advised him to take it to a PC store and have them fix it. They indeed fixed it by reinstalling windows but at the same time removing most of his data. The shops owner says he cannot recall which of the techies worked on it and even claimed that 'they would never do that' but thats rather irrelevant at this time as i've got some data that needs to be salvaged.
There were three HDD's in the system of which two were affected. One contained the original Windows XP installation and, on a separate partition, a large number of 'private' files including hand-ins andresults of students of my father, many school-related documents of my brother and sister and a large number of photographs. The second one contained mostyl larger audio and video files. Both drives' partition tables seem to have been changed and probably been formatted (unsure on format type).
First one to scream 'backup' will recieve a swift kick in the nuts, cause that has been done but the most recent one is from a few months ago.
The PC hasn't been used since he noticed that the files were missing so they *should* still be there, remains the question how to get to them. These are the drives:
WD2000. 200GB, SATA, NTFS
Maxtor DM10 300GB, SATA, NTFS
Right now one of them is in my main computer being scanned by R-studio, a recovery program someone advised me, but its halfway the drive now and hasnt come up with any files as far as i can see. I could use some advice as to what software to use and more specifically, how, cause i have little experience with data recovery like this.