orange_6's Journal: Large data loss....damn

My computers are being little bitches.

We bought a 200GB hard drive a year ago (give or take) and I chopped it up into 2 NTFS partitions (the logical thing to do). I had one partition for storage stuff and one for miscellaneous stuff to be sorted, tested, etc. Simple enough.

When I bought the new wireless card I decided to pull the drive out reformat the main hdd for that machine, taking the 200GB out for safety (I tend to screw things up like that). So I put it in the server for safe keeping. Well, the partition with all my documents, movies, music, etc decided to loose it's master boot record.

Fuck.

After poking around with chkdsk and looking up error messages from various other software, I found that Active@ File Recovery will be able to recover about 90% of my data! Huzzah! The only problem is that I will have to shell out the $30 to restore any files above 32kb...damnit. I don't really have the money to be doing that, but I also don't want to lose 100GB of data.

Any thoughts from the peanut gallery? Other tools? Fire?

$30???

[elmegil]

Norton costs $70, what are you bitching about? Isn't your data worth $30? I know mine would be :-).

Re:$30???

[orange_6]

The stuff on that drive is worth well over $30....if I had the $30 (ie not being a poor college student)

Got NDD from a friend...so it was free. It didn't work either, so I'm glad I didn't shell out for it.