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Hi Fiona

"Afterwards you can try to run chkdsk drive letter: /r to have a try to repair your file system."
That was one of the first things I did see paragraph 1 of my original message
I was using running chkdsk ?: /f /x /b /r on via on each partition on a drive with 3 partitions via Command ...

Hi Fiona

Thanks for you reply

"Did you use quick format?" No I did a Format D: at the command prompt (see paragraph 4 original message)
"Overridden data are not recoverable" Maybe I am lucky then (see paragraph 8 original message quoted below)

"I can see directories, and file structure plus ...

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Re-install OS is not an option (just cause I am lazy) I have a backup drive (made with a drive duplicating machine ~ my own creation) this backup is only 3 weeks old so I am going to recover the data files in the documents folder the downloads folder and the Thunderbird mail from the APPDATA ...

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I was using running chkdsk ?: /f /x /b /r on via on each partition on a drive with 3 partitions via Command Prompt under (Power suite) where ? was either C: D:

C Drive was the main operating system & data drive
D drive was the partition for the swap file only

I forgot the reserved partition ...