Partition Emergency, 500+gigs lots hundreds of hours gone, please help

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justinzornes

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hey all. okay so heres the deal. i had vista installed on a 40 gig ide drive. i have a 750 gig brand new baracuda hard drive, ( f: ) which i store all my important files on, (this is the drive im missing everything on). I also have 2, 320 gig raided hard drives ( c: ) which i just installed a new copy of vista on. So i removed the old 40 gig ide, and installed a new clean copy of vista on the 2 raided hard drives. When vista booted up i was unable to see the hard drive which i store all my info on ( f: ) so i went to the disk managed and saw an 80 gig block of unallocated space on the drive where i was storing all my info ( f: ) i then created a new simple volume in that 80 gigs of unalocated space thinking maybe it would merge with the files that were already on that hard drive that i could not find. this did not happen so i deleted it. i have not written anything new to this hard drive, however i cant figure out why its broken into so many partitions, one of which claims to be larger than the actual drive its self. i have paragon partition manager installed and am trying to search for deleted partitions, but no luck yet. please help if possible, i can provide more screenshots of what paragon has given me so far if that helps. thanks in advance guys, you've been more than helpful int he past.
 

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I have tried about 4 recovery programs on a hdd I screwed up, and all I got were bits and pieces of the originals with some screwed up names. If you downloaded it once you can do it again. :)
 
Quentin_T said:
I have tried about 4 recovery programs on a hdd I screwed up, and all I got were bits and pieces of the originals with some screwed up names. If you downloaded it once you can do it again. :)
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Yeah, he/she would really like to download 500GB! Great idea!:rolleyes:
 
Quentin_T said:
I have tried about 4 recovery programs on a hdd I screwed up, and all I got were bits and pieces of the originals with some screwed up names. If you downloaded it once you can do it again. :)
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yea, this is not an option, i would pay a fat recovery fee is nessecery before i tried to do that. thanks for the help so far guys, i still have paragon searching for partitions. any help appreciated, thanks.
 
oscaryu1 said:
Yeah, he/she would really like to download 500GB! Great idea!:rolleyes:
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The point was that these programs don't just recover a file, they way it was... You get split apart files with random file names. But thanks for the sarcasm, that helps everyone.
 
Quentin_T said:
The point was that these programs don't just recover a file, they way it was... You get split apart files with random file names. But thanks for the sarcasm, that helps everyone.
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Thanks for the idea of download 500GB. That helped alot. Great idea too!

Scattered files are better than losing it all *common sense*

I've used this on corrupted hard drives with excellent results
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Yeah scattered files... :rolleyes:
 
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