restore partition that was partially scrubbed.

[mikesw]

I was using Acronis drivecleanser to scrub a logical drive using their Scheiner algorithm. However, I accidentally selected

the wrong partition and it ran for about 1-5 seconds before I could abort it. The filesystem is NTFS and contains about 30 gigs

of data on a 200 gig drive logical partition. I realize the partition table is gone since the Acronis tools can't restore the

partition. Is there any other tool that people recommend that will restore the partition and or recover the data files that are still

out there on the disk? At least I won't lose everything. I presume there are mutliple copies of the directory file structure on

disk in multiple locations, so the software might be able to locate the files based on this second copy.

Thanks.

[jaclaz]

Well, no, I am afraid you are presuming wrong.

Most probably the first partition data (and structure) is beyond recovery, maybe the logical one can be fully recovered.

You can nonetheless have a try with TESTDISK:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

and/or with Tokiwa Partition Recovery:

http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/PartitionRecovery

and/or ScroungeNTFS:

http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/software/scrounge/

But most probably you will need a file based (as opposed to partition based) recovery program, the good news is that only a very little amount of files can be deleted in a few seconds, so most of the data should be recoverable.

Among the Freeware ones I can recommend PHOTOREC (same author as TESTDISK).

Read also this:

http://www.msfn.org/board/Data-recovery-tool-t84345.html

http://www.msfn.org/board/Data-recovery-to...5.html&st=7

jaclaz

Edited March 18, 2008 by jaclaz