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.