File recovery after partitioning external drive.
Posted: 22 Mar 2012, 12:21
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 of the drive unallocated.
After carrying out this process the 70G partition No1 was converted to NTFS, 50G partition 2 is unallocated and the rest of the drive is unallocated.
The entire drive is now showing unused apart from 66.7MB on partition No1.
I have managed to recover most, if not all the files, using PhotoRec and saved on a different external hard drive over 100 recup_dir. folders of files.
The data is obviously still on the original 1TB external hard drive and my question is can TestDisk recover this data in its original folder/file structure and if so could you advise a computer illiterate, such as myself, how this could be achieved?
PS - I have attempted using TestDisk to recover this data, with no success, but I am worried that I could corrupt the information further and then have to spend the next 3 years of my life sorting through the 69G of recup_dir. folders I have generated!
Regards.
BigDave.
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 of the drive unallocated.
After carrying out this process the 70G partition No1 was converted to NTFS, 50G partition 2 is unallocated and the rest of the drive is unallocated.
The entire drive is now showing unused apart from 66.7MB on partition No1.
I have managed to recover most, if not all the files, using PhotoRec and saved on a different external hard drive over 100 recup_dir. folders of files.
The data is obviously still on the original 1TB external hard drive and my question is can TestDisk recover this data in its original folder/file structure and if so could you advise a computer illiterate, such as myself, how this could be achieved?
PS - I have attempted using TestDisk to recover this data, with no success, but I am worried that I could corrupt the information further and then have to spend the next 3 years of my life sorting through the 69G of recup_dir. folders I have generated!
Regards.
BigDave.