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Help!! Hd Crash-need To Recover Data

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LawyerLynn

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I'm running windows xp pro on two 80 gig HDD's that I"ve striped using my Mobo's onboard RAID function and then partitioned into a 100 GB logical drive and a 60 GB logical drive. My Outlook .PST file for all my email was on the 60 gig drive. My boot sector and MBR's got corrupted (thank you very much Norton Disk Doctor:mad: ) I managed, using recovery console to repair stuff and get the OS up and running, but in the process I had to delete the 60 GB partition and then restore and reformat it and I was unable to save the .PST file before doing that (no way to access the disk at all prior to repair of MBR and NTFS tables). I know there are software programs out there that in theory can help me locate and recover the lost .PST file from the partition but I don't know which is best and if there is a freeware rather than a $100+ solution. The .PST file contains about 3 months worth of email and I was planning on backing up as soon as Disk Doctor scanned everything. Sadly, Disk Doctor seems to have caused the problem that made me lose the data I wanted to back up. Any ideas, help, suggestions on how to get this file back from the deleted partition would be useful. Note, while I deleted the partition, when I restored it, I restored it in the same size as it was to begin with and just ran a NTFS quick format from recovery console. My C:\ is unaffected and was not modified in any way. Only this one 60 Gig. partion. Any ideas or do I just need to write off the file and all that email as gone forever (no, I've already checked, backup copies from my ISP's server are not available).
 
I've used Tiramisu for NTFS in the past, but now it is bought by Ontrack, they offer it under EasyRecovery name.
 
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