Hard Drive Scrambled Over Easy! Data all messed up

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HeyYouMan

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Ok, so I started out with 2 Hard Drive, and 3 partitions.
250gig Hard Drive, 1 Partition(D:/)
160gig Hard Drive 2 Partitions(C:/ about 25 gigs & E:/ 135gigs)

I removed the 250 gig hard drive to move to another computer. I was fiddling with some old programs I had found and was looking at a program called Restore It! to see if it could back up my hard drive to DVD-RW. I was 1/2 asleep at 4am in the morning and figured I would install the program and figure it out tomorrow. When I woke up, I realized that Restore It! had not only installed but had cut a hunk out of my E: drive and tried to back up my C: !
This isn't what I wanted so I uninstalled the program and pulled out my old reliable Partition Magic to clean up the mess, and delete the partition. While I was at it, I redistributed some space around, so it was C:/ 20 gigs, and E:/ 140gigs.
For some god awful reason, while it was working on it, my power went out.

When it started back up Windows ran some program and went through all the files.

The computer started up alright, and the partition was still there, but had no label. So I set it to D:/ and then set partition magic to try again.

It finished and everything looked fine...

Then I went to open one of my files, and there was nothing but gibberish.
So I went to watch a movie, 1/2 of them won't start, and some that do start, play the wrong movie in the begining or end and then switch back to the original movie its suppost to play.

These are all my most important documents, and I really need them back!
I tried running
chkdsk d: /f
But, I'm not sure what else to try.
PLEASE HELP!
 
I think you will first need a good Welcome to the Computer Forum! http://www.computerforum.com/70672-official-welcome-thread.html and the usual reminder to all new members to review the http://www.computerforum.com/52038-forum-rules.html

Hopefully we can straighten out the mess you found yourself with. By the description you provide here the program Restore It managed to corrupt some data during the backup process when it was left unattended to. Some of these programs work only with certain file types and not videos or you had a shareware version of the retail product seen at http://www.farstone.com/software/restoreit.htm ???

Besides possible file corruption by something being wrong with the software the power disruption would be another thing to look at there. An incomplete backup being suddenly interrupted explains the file corruption there. Now you will have to go through each file one by one. Having deleted one partition you can expand the present one to allow for new folders for temporarily storing files still found intact.
 
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