bob king
December 19th 03, 05:48 PM
disk commander from winternals. with it, you can get
back every bit of what's left, which is usually quite a
bit more than one might imagine... www.winternals.com
happy hunting!
>-----Original Message-----
>I read a lot of threads on the same topic. Did not come
across any
>that dealt with chkdsk and NTFS. So here I am, hoping
that sombody
>here might help me.
>
>I have a 40 GB logical partition on a 160 GB disk on
windows XP Pro (
>SP1 ). Last 2 days I ve been seeing a message in the
System tray (
>right side of the task bar ) that there is an
unreferenced file called
>G:\????.
>I did not do anything particular since I could not
locate any file
>called ???? in the G drive.
>But then next time I reboted the system ( today ) when
windows came up
>it ran chkdsk and deleted almost all the files on the
drive ?
>That s almost all my data gone.
>I tried various ways to recover teh data including
system restore,
>without any success.
>Is there any chance for me.
>I m willing to purchase software for this purpose.
>Are there any good data recovery softwares out there. Do
you have any
>suggestions.
>The data is there on the hard disk, since never wrote
anything to this
>disk again. Actually I havent done much with it after
the apisode at
>all. So I have confidence that with the help of some
recovery utility,
>I might see my precious data again.
>
>Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
>--nw
>.
>
back every bit of what's left, which is usually quite a
bit more than one might imagine... www.winternals.com
happy hunting!
>-----Original Message-----
>I read a lot of threads on the same topic. Did not come
across any
>that dealt with chkdsk and NTFS. So here I am, hoping
that sombody
>here might help me.
>
>I have a 40 GB logical partition on a 160 GB disk on
windows XP Pro (
>SP1 ). Last 2 days I ve been seeing a message in the
System tray (
>right side of the task bar ) that there is an
unreferenced file called
>G:\????.
>I did not do anything particular since I could not
locate any file
>called ???? in the G drive.
>But then next time I reboted the system ( today ) when
windows came up
>it ran chkdsk and deleted almost all the files on the
drive ?
>That s almost all my data gone.
>I tried various ways to recover teh data including
system restore,
>without any success.
>Is there any chance for me.
>I m willing to purchase software for this purpose.
>Are there any good data recovery softwares out there. Do
you have any
>suggestions.
>The data is there on the hard disk, since never wrote
anything to this
>disk again. Actually I havent done much with it after
the apisode at
>all. So I have confidence that with the help of some
recovery utility,
>I might see my precious data again.
>
>Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
>--nw
>.
>