I am still working on my co-worker's PC. It threw fits all night last night (until about 12AM) and then all afternoon. I have been trying a couple different utilities to get the data into a restorable state. I bought a software that gave me more optimism. I used a program from Active@ called Partion Recovery. It was able to see the partition and I was able to see all of the files I need to restore before I wipe the drive and start over. Yay! The only problem was I had a demo. So I had to buy it. Doh! Not a bad price...$39.95. I should make atleast that for fixing the computer. The utility may also come in very handy in the future...so I was fine with buying it. It allows you to restore an entire partition to a drive letter and make it bootable. Wow! Unfortunately, there are too many partitions on the drive for it to work. I went back to the old stand by Get Data Back and is finding the files. I do not know why it did not find them before...but it works now. I am excited about that.
PC should be delivered this evening I would imagine.
I am going to get into the data recovery business I think. :P It easy with these programs! People pay hundreds if not thousands for data recovery...they could just do it themselves. Obviously if the disk has physical damage it might be better to send it off...but for rogue partitions, fdisk, and format...this sure seems to be the way to go.
-Derek
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