Comments on: Help me recover my documents after partitioning!

Question: Help me recover my documents after partitioning!

PWA_BadBoy — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:10:03 -0800

I just did a full WinXP reinstall. In the process, I took an 80 gig drive which was partitioned to 10/30/40 gig partitions and repartitioned it to 10/10/20/15/25 partitions. Unfortunately, that 40 gig partition held my "My Documents" holding a bunch of Word documents spanning the years and a lot of digital photos that are irreplaceable.

I've tried a few file recovery programs with limited success (recovered around 20% of my files) however I think the problem is the repartitions have split a lot of the files across two or more partitions. Is there a way I can recombine these partitions and try the file recovery programs again??

By: mmcg

mmcg — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:44:07 -0800

R-Studio. See my comments on it here for more info. It seems to have worked for others.

By: muckster

muckster — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:37:38 -0800

I don't know if it'll work for your particular problem, but I've had good results with R-Studio, too. Definitely worth a try. Good luck!

By: PWA_BadBoy

PWA_BadBoy — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:44:49 -0800

Thanks for the responses. I've tried R-Studio with limited success. I guess I'm just wondering if maybe I'll have more success if I combine the partitions back into one big partition??