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Partitoning Failed, Drive Destroyed... Any good recovery software?
Hey guys I was trying to partition my drive using 'Partition Magic 8' apparently 33% of the way in it came across bad sectors and aborted saying nothing had been changed.
Turns out I couldn't even boot my computer after... so much for 'nothing changed' right?
Anyway so I plugged it into this computer as a slave drive. It shows up in My Computer but as 0 bytes and when trying to open it, it says the drive is corrupted.
So is there any good file recovery software that anyone knows of? Anything that someone would recommend to me, paid or not paid.
Also as a side note, would it be better to format the partition and then try to find my files? As far as I know a format doesn't do much except for say the data is avaliable to be overwritten and I heard from a friend that if it's unaddressable it'd be better to format it and then try and look for stuff because while its corrupted part of it is unreadable by any program.
Thanks.