Im fixing a pc for a friend and need to recover his files piccys etc from his hdd.
The problem im having is its on of thoughs sh*tty packardbell things and when i put his hdd as a slave in my pc it only lets me access the 5gig backup partition even though its a 160gig hdd.
how do i get onto the other partition?.
What does disk manager look like?
Have you tried EasyRecovery, it should pick stuff up even if the partition info is knackered.
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/file-recovery-software/
You need a 2nd drive to copy the stuff to though.
Bill your mate for the software and 500gb hdd youll need to complete this ;)
if that doesnt work i can recommend getdataback ntfs
http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm
isnt free for full recovery but the trial at least shows you what it can find & recover.
Quote from: MadrockerIm fixing a pc for a friend and need to recover his files piccys etc from his hdd.
The problem im having is its on of thoughs sh*tty packardbell things and when i put his hdd as a slave in my pc it only lets me access the 5gig backup partition even though its a 160gig hdd.
how do i get onto the other partition?.
Open up disk manager. Right click the 160gb partition and mount it in your system :)
I second On-Track used it very sucessfully loads of times
Quote from: madmaxif that doesnt work i can recommend getdataback ntfs
http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm
isnt free for full recovery but the trial at least shows you what it can find & recover.
Ill agree here, its not free, but it is bloody good.
I forgot to mention Im not paying for software.
Then your pretty much stuck. Most free ones if you can find them are trial versions and only recover a partial amount of files.
Get him to pay for it.
Its realy annoying because theres nothing wrong with the hdd.
The motherboard dided and i cant get windows to load on a different one (for obvious reasons but it was worth a try).
how about i just deleat the 5gig partition and force it to load the other one?
Getdataback is the way to go its a great tool. Im sure you can "find" a copy somewhere....
Quote from: RivkidGetdataback is the way to go its a great tool. Im sure you can "find" a copy somewhere....
All sorted now.
Cheers guys.