That is indeed strange. It should hardly matter whether you copy the folders/files into your internal drive or another external drive. Windows should be able to open the folders and read the files. If the folders are empty, I would wonder why!!!!!!
Have you copied all the data and checked all the folders? Are all of them empty?
EDIT: Go to Folder Options in Windows , unhide the files and check. ( off now to bed.)
Again it is strange. If the drive did show up in Disk Management, I do not see any reason why Partition Wizard will not show, unless something serious has happened to the drive since you posted the screenshot.
Again you must plugin the drive, before you run Partition Wizard.
Does it still show in the Disk Management?
Are you still able to access the drive with live Linux? If so, do copy all the files to another external drive.
Try the recovery with Partition Wizard on another computer or download the bootable CD of Partition Wizard, burn it on to a CD, boot with it and try the recovery. (That should keep the Windows out of the loop)
What is the status of folders you recovered? Did you check for the files after unhiding?
Last edited by jumanji; 23 Feb 2013 at 22:24.
Update:
The files are still if I view them using a Linux live disk. However when I try to copy them over to another harddrive it starts the copy but then an error shows and ext harddive disappears.
I was hoping to fix this myself but it looks as if I'll have to get my company's IT guy to take care of it.
WARNING :-
Minitool Partition Wizard is generally suitable for both MBR and GPT style HDD.
UNFORTUNATELY its Partition Recovery Wizard is NOT suitable for use on GPT
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A 500 GB partition became unallocated space.
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This was done without any need to perform Partition Recovery
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NB Previously commercial software costing $69 also retrieved those files but that attempt failed Macrium verification.
I think the difficulty with a 6 GB file is that it was probably in perhaps 200 fragments,
and simple file recovery can only identify the "first extent" (technical term which I think means the first fragment),
hence I am impressed that both recovery tools found every one of 200 fragments and built up the same sized output files,
and astounded that the free recovery tool was able to find and fit several hundred pieces together in the correct order.
Just two "defects" which I reported to the developer and should be corrected in the next release :-
1.
Although it identifies the actual time-stamps of the files available for recovery,
when I tell it to save them (on a different drive) it allows Windows to save them with "today's time-stamp";
2.
Some recovery actions require it to use Windows "handles" on partitions,
and in anticipation of such a need it assigns drive letters to valid partitions that have no letters,
and those letters remain after the tool has finished and closed.
My 100 MB "System Reserved" partition became drive G:\ - it still is G:\ because it causes me no concerns,
but those who are purists may be horrified if this happens and you a slow to recognise and then fix.
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Regards
Alan
Hi there
try some of these "Freebies"
15 Free File Recovery Software Programs (Free Undelete Software)
cheers
jimbo
I do not know much about Linux but I have just seen many Linux users complaining that they are able to mount the NTFS drives but cannot copy the files. There was also some discussion on which driver Linux uses to read NTFS, may be sometimes read only.
So I would suggest that you go with the tried out Linux solutions as indicated in my post #6, either Lucid Puppy or Peppermint 3.
If you strike gold, let us know.
I am continuing to look at Linux not copying problem and will come back if I can find any discernible solution. You may also google search on the problem and perhaps you can understand and decipher better than me.
Please note that there is no mounting of partitions required with my suggestion
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Last edited by alan10; 28 Feb 2013 at 13:22. Reason: Clarification of capability
BigSeb
Lets try this ...
We can run CHKDSK from Windows Recovery Environment, steps to follow:
Put the Windows 7 installation disc in the disc drive, and then start the computer.
Press a key when you are prompted.
Select a language, a time, a currency, a keyboard or an input method, and then click Next.
Click Repair your computer. ( Bottom Left hand side )
Click the operating system that you want to repair, and then click Next.
In the System Recovery Options dialog box, click Command Prompt.
Type in what is in the code box press ENTER after each command
Code:DISKPART LIST DISKInformationTake note of the driver letter
Once you're done type
Code:exitInformationThat will exit Diskpart
then do a
Code:chkdsk n /f /vInformationn= drive letter
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