Thanks Chad I'll check them.
Chad Harris wrote:
> Bernie--
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> Check out the apps from Sysinternals and Wininternals (who now have gone
> over to MSFT as of a couple weeks ago--the apps are tremendous quality but
> not cheap).
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> www.sysinternals.com
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> CH
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> "Bernie" <bernie@nospam.org> wrote in message
> news:uPHJPPatGHA.4748@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> I have all the most important data backed up. But I have a huge number of
>> downloads (utilities and lots of other stuff) that would take a long time
>> to replace. It is worth it to me to spend some hours and even some money
>> not to have to replace those things. So...
>>
>> I had four partitions; XP, Vista, Linux and a Linux swap. The XP partition
>> is the important one.
>>
>> So I can see there are sites promising partition recovery software for a
>> fee. I don't mind a smallish fee but I want to know what works and what
>> doesn't first.
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>> So anyone out there good at data recovery?
>>
>> More data: I have another drive in the machine with a lot of free space
>> but it is also my data drive. It is okay but doesn't have an O/S on it.
>>
>> There isn't a working O/S on the main drive and it is the main drive that
>> I want to recover. So the ideal solution is something that can work from
>> a bootable CD.
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