Corrupt Disk - Need Serious Help

[lazy0ne]

I made a mistake and my wife will kill me if I don't fix this.

XP Media Center is OS and the corrupt data disk is NTFS

I migrated 2 data drives to a new server via a PCI Ultra/66. I connected one of the drives as Master (with no slave present) and the other I connected as slave. For some reason this corrupted the data on the slave drive. XP did a chdsk on the next boot and recovered some files and made them readable. However, the two main directory, including all of our digital pictures are completely missing. There are several "found.000" files, but only very few of the files I need.

Please give me suggestions on how to recover all of the files that I have lost.

Thanks in advance.

lz


UPDATE: I downloaded the DEMO of several file recovery utilities. Unfortunately, some of them do not recover the directory structure or the file names. The utility that timswim78 mentioned (R-Studio) does recover the directory structure and file names. This is the program I ended up using to sucessfully recover the files.

 

[timswim78]

R-TT.com has a product that should help you. It costs $50 - $75, and it is worth every penny.

 

[birdpup]

Originally posted by: lazy0ne
I migrated 2 data drives to a new server via a PCI Ultra/66. I connected one of the drives as Master (with no slave present) and the other I connected as slave.

Can you explain this again in more detail please?

"Migrated two drives" -
Does this mean you physically removed two drives from system #1 to put in system #2?
Were these two drives working together previously?
Is there an operating system on one drive with data files on the other drive, data on both drives, or possibly an operating system on each drive?
Did you connect drive1 on cable1 and drive2 on cable2?
What are the jumper settings of each drive?
How many drives are currently in the system?
Is an optical drive (CD/DVD reader/burner) connected to one of the IDE cables?

Assumption: These are IDE hard drives.

GetDataBack is another good option for recovering data. But only install GetDataBack on a good system with the data needing recovery installed as a slave to the system.

 

[birdpup]

Thank you for the update on your successful recovery of your data and the usefulness of or R-TT. That is appreciated.