restore partition?

[arciced]

i the main partition on my backup drive by accident. i havent done anything else yet. is there a way to access the files on it? thanks.

 

[absynthe97]

You did what to the main partition? If you just removed it by some means but did not reformat over it there are some utilities out there... I cant remember the names of the ones I tried... a lot of them are expensive but there are a few that have trial periods (or used to)

http://www.lc-tech.com/software/software.html#Recovery

I tried this one and was able to see plenty of files that I had deleted. I don't know if they still have the trial. The trial I used was the one for the u3 usb devices...

Take a look around for file recovery software and you might find one that seems decent that is on a trial basis.

 

[arciced]

well b4 u replied i found active partition recovery, dled it off usenet and got my crap back..