but if it's in RAW format wouldn't that prevent me from getting at them still?
I really need this stuff back. My house got broken into very recently and this computer was left, unfortunately all my backups were stolen. I'd lose all my correspondence from my parents growing up, old journals, photos, videos from my childhood.
Focus on SIW2's recommendations.
Ask him the questions you need to proceed as he suggests.
It is likely the filesystem is still intact - in that case you should be able to recover data.
If sys resc cd picks up the drive as raw - then test disk may be able to recover your files .
TestDisk: undelete file for NTFS - CGSecurity
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Data_Recovery_Examples
ok, I'll give that a shot when I get home...the system rescue CD you were speaking of before is the one W7 helps you create I assume
In case you missed BFK's post.
The system rescue is not the one you run of from within windows - it is here:
Screenshots - SystemRescueCd
See if test disk can recover the partition first - if not, try the file recovery.
Recovery of a lost and damaged NTFS Data Recovery Examples - CGSecurity
This is an excellent tool for data recovery you might want to give it ago works for me every time. It is free for home use.
Free File Recovery Software - Power Data Recovery is an all-in-one free data recovery software that could help you to recover your lost data from hard disk, CD, DVD disk, memory stick, memory card, and flash drive.
Steve
ok, so I ran testdisk, the weird thing was after I selected the partition, instead of it coming up as NTFS I had to scroll through a list of like 75 different format types, only one even had NTFS in the name, I selected that one, and when I went to undelete it told me it couldnt do anything and that the file system appeared to be damaged
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