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Hard Disk Data Recovery

Asked by amacfarl in Hard Drives & Storage, Backup Exec

Tags: hard, disk

Hi All,

I have had a very bad weekend, and I hope someone can help.

What happened in brief:
- I have a NTFS 200 GB Hard Drive and tried to resize the partition with "Partition Magic"
- The resize failed and using Ontrack EasyRecovery Profession and managed to recover all my data "except" one file is corrupt - this is a 50GB Steganos Secure Safe which holds all my data.  Ouch.    

....then....
I turned to by backup hard-drive, and guess what... due to a problem with the hard disk enclosure there was a short curcuit and one of the chips on the underside of the drive got fried!

So.... I am left with nothing.  I have tried everything to recover the mess that Partition Magic has left me, but the 50GB file is shot.  I think the 50GB flie has something to do with the issue... I was however able to recover the rest.

So I am left with the only option of sending the backup disk to a recovery service.  I have looked into a few and they are not cheap.  I have used Ontrack before through business and they have been excellent - but expensive.  Someone recommended to me http://www.cbltech.co.uk/labs.html?id=1.  Specifically because they (a) have a local lab and (b) do not charge to analyze.

So..... why am I boring you with all of this.... well - does anyone have any advice on what to try with the partition magic screw up?  or with the fried backup?

I have not tried fixing the partition magic screw up with partition magic - I was scared as that was breaking the one rule of not writting anything to a screwed up disk.

Any ideas....
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