Im in Massive trouble guys

[remotebandit]

How are you guys , well as the heading says , im F####d .

Ive gone to re-instal windows 98 on an older pc and deleted a partition on 1 of the Hdd that was in it , the wrong Hdd .

Anyone got any ideas on retreiving partition or how to recover it .

Thanx .

Adam .

[Born2drift]

bum bummmmmmmmmmmmmm

[justo316]

I'm an IT graduate.....all I have to say is....umm....well I don't have a job yet :(

[remotebandit]

cant delete it as its too important , its got a program on there i just need to retrieve and thats it .

Even if its possible to be grabbed out of there and put on the main hdd with new operating system thats fine but its gonna be a matter of seeing it

[justo316]

can I ask what program it is?

[justo316]

first google search link
http://www.partition-recovery.com/

[remotebandit]

the program was called " cashman " but i had a few past property and investment figures in there i dont want to lose as well so will have to pull those out 2

[justo316]

hmm...I can't get cashman, but I can get almost any partition recovery program you might want to try ;)

[remotebandit]

sorry justo , the program i want to recover off the deleted partition is cash man . Dont care about anything else on it .

i find it unbelievable that i back up my babes pix but not my work , what a typical dickhead i am ... lol .

[justo316]

but if you restore the partition, can't you get access back to whatever you need? In which case, don't use the pc and accidently overwrite it.

[remotebandit]

tried that justo but my main pc dont recognise the hdd without a partition on it so its invisible

[remotebandit]

sorry , tried that rc king

[justo316]

ahh ok. Dunno if this makes a difference, but that active partition recovery works from a boot floppy?

[cray-]

there r data recovery ppl out there who can do it for u. but they will really test the value of that data coz its HUGELY expensive.

[mangoman]

OK RB, if you have only deleted the partition then there are about 3-4 programs out there which can retrieve the data for you.

However if you have deleted the partition then recreated it i dont know what will happen but i assume you should be able to get most of the data back. If you have also written data on to the new partition then potentially you may have written over information space which was being used and thus have lost the data.

I have seen a program called active undelete in action but never used it to restore a deleted partition. www.active-undelete.com

Good Luck.....
Mangoman

[mangoman]

http://www.active-undelete.com/price.htm $US 39.95 there is also a demo version so you may be able to test it out to see if it works.

If you do use it will be easiest for you to install the software on the running PC and install the problem HDD into that system as a second HDD.

[mangoman]

Actually sorry about the third post i just noticed that the company which makes active-undelete has a special tool for recovering partitions..... http://www.partition-recovery.com/

[BALISTC]

www.getdataback.com

Download the version for FAT, seeing as its a Win 98 partition, and it works a treat...although you DO have to pay for it.

I recovered a lost partition with this program, so I know it works ;)

[opAsx]

send me an email at admin AT opasx DOT com and i will send you the programs you need.

easy fix.

[remotebandit]

guys , i will work on this frantically today and i cant thank all of you enough either way .

If anyone ever asks how i saved myself on this occasion , i will tell them i got my knowledge off a few blokes that race remote control cars .

[remotebandit]

email sent opasx . Thanx .

[remotebandit]

Thanx to the combined efforts of ALL that contributed to this thread , ive got " cash man " back out of its traps and im now back in business .

This is an Excellent forum and who would believe that a fault like this could be fixed by a few guys that race rc cars .

[satriagti94]

are you saying they are stoopid? :P
hahaha nah jks
your welcome man,
even though i didnt help at all with this thread becuase i know fudge all about comps ill itake some of the credit hehe :P

[remotebandit]

yeah it does come accross that way doesnt it , i meant that ive spoken to people that do this everyday for work and they cant offer any advice ( cause they obviously want to grab $100 or so to do it themselves ) but its been figuredout here free in under 15 hours .

[remotebandit]

Couldnt have done it without you king , well your support anyway... lol

Im off to work now for the nightrun , ill catch yas during big brother uplate .

[justo316]

mmm...bb up late :P

[opAsx]

relying on community assistance can be a good thing as long as no one steers you up shit creek... and then pilfers your paddles.