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by bigdavesgusset
22 Mar 2012, 17:12
Forum: File recovery
Topic: File recovery after partitioning external drive.
Replies: 4
Views: 10804

Re: File recovery after partitioning external drive.

I appear to have retrieved everything in the original folder/file format - what a blinding piece of kit!

Partition Magic has been completely erased from my life forever.

Thank you very much.

BigDave.
by bigdavesgusset
22 Mar 2012, 16:20
Forum: File recovery
Topic: File recovery after partitioning external drive.
Replies: 4
Views: 10804

Re: File recovery after partitioning external drive.

Hello Fiona,

Thank you for your reply.

I wish I had known that Partition Magic was obsolete before I started this sorry business.

I am in the process of copying my folders/files as I type.

I used "a" to select all files and "copy" to save in my TestDisk folder.

I was trying to locate the "write ...
by bigdavesgusset
22 Mar 2012, 13:32
Forum: File recovery
Topic: File recovery after partitioning external drive.
Replies: 4
Views: 10804

Update on File recovery after partitioning external drive.

Using the advice on the link below I have managed to locate my lost files!

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Data_Recovery_Examples#Recovery_of_reformatted_partition

BUT the the otion to "choose write and confirm" does not appear to be available to me after "List" and "If you can see your files (I ...
by bigdavesgusset
22 Mar 2012, 12:21
Forum: File recovery
Topic: File recovery after partitioning external drive.
Replies: 4
Views: 10804

File recovery after partitioning external drive.

I had 1TB external drive with 69G of files on one FAT32 partition.
These files were a variety including images, text, applications etc.
I attempted to partition this drive, using Partition Magic 8.0, so that my files were retained as FAT32 on partition No1 with a 50G NFTS partion No2 and the rest ...