Bernie wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
I have used Active@Partition before with successful results. It was a long
time ago. I can't remember details other than I saved the link because the
program worked.
http://www.partition-recovery.com/
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Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
www.VistaHelp.ca