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Need some help from Linux and/or XP experts!

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corinthos

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I'm trying to regain access to some partitions on one of my hard disks. I managed to get access to the hard disk under XP, but the disk manager shows them as "unknown partitions"... They were formatted under NTFS but now I can't access them for some reason.. I ran into this problem after installing MythDora, which I thought would be like a live cd available in other distros that let you check it out without installing anything. Turns out MythDora partitioned, formatted, and installed itself onto one of my HDs without warning or any prompts. I then tried to "fix" things by messing around with fsck and fdisk under MythDora and have no idea what I did...

Anyway, I now have some partitions XP is identifying as "unknown partitions" and I'd like to access them to recover some files that were in my XP installs prior to the problems that I created after installing MythDora to try out.

Anybody familiar with data recovery that could help me out?
 
If it really did format and install over top of you're data you're pretty much screwed, the data's been overwritten and would most likely only be recoverable from a very expensive service that pulls the data off of the platters manually in a clean room.

There are some commercial tools that you could give a try, but you'll need to pay a good amount for them too or crack them. Not that I can remember the names of any of them right now anyway.
 
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