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Empty partition after redistributing free space with Paragon

May 25, 2011 5:33AM PDT

Hi, I?m about to commite suicide so I just wanted to make a final query before I do it.I have a 320 GB western digital HD, it has windows 7 (x64) in one partition and data in the other.I used paragon partiton manager to redistribute the free space (don?t ask me why didn?t I use the W7 features please). It did, but the partition with all the data was "not formatted". It showed the exact used and free space (so no data loss) but I couldn?t have acces to it. I manged to convert it to NTFS... still showed the right used and free space, but no luck having acces to the files.So I used the W7 function to check the disk... and after it finishes it the partition with the data is empty, the OS partition is intact, but the other one is empty.I tried everything, so I?m not actually asking for a solution, my question is:Given the fact that I haven?t erased the partition or deteled it or have done anything other than redistribute the free space... will a professional HD recovery be able to restore the filesystem or the files?Thanks in advance.

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Iffy!
May 25, 2011 5:49AM PDT

Did you ask http://www.drivesavers.com what they think?

And given the recovery costs, isn't it cheaper to backup before such dangerous operations?
Bob

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ahhhhhh
May 25, 2011 11:57AM PDT

Thanks for the answer.... I did something really stupid I?m aware of that. I
was extremely lucky... I managed to recover all the important files with a data
recovery soft.I sure learned something from this:I WILL NEVER EVER AGAIN
MESS WITH HARD DRIVES WITHOUT HAVING A BACKUP!!!!
Really appreciate your
advice, I?ll make good use of them right after I back up these
precious, heavenly files I recovered.Thanks a lot.

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So that others may learn, what data recovery software are
May 26, 2011 2:43AM PDT

you referring to ?

VAPCMD

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A few...
May 26, 2011 11:57AM PDT

I tried a few... there are 3 softs very alike, they work almost identically

icare data recovery software (which is the one I used)
Easeus data recovery wizard 5.01
Minitool power data recovery 6.5

But to be honest... I was lucky ?cause the partition of the problem was never used for anything else than hosting these files... if I would have installed an OS or even erased and copied files many times in that partition all my data would have been lost or unusable.

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Ok Thanks....I'm well covered personally but this may
May 27, 2011 12:31AM PDT

certainly help another reader.

VAPCMD