good morning today...had to wake up early to post this technical prob...really important, my 80GB worth data in risk as it's unreadable due to Dynamic Mode after formated my 1st (40GB Seagate 2MB) 2nd is 80GB Maxtor DiamondMax10 8MB - both of them are PATA.yes, 1st HDD is no prob, but all my projects, important file are inside this 80GB, in disk management, showed unreadable n right click, no action can do except to convert to basic mode, but this will deleted all data!!! wtf...i cant do nothing...
read previous post n saw most of u guys recommend stellar, d/loaded already, beside i dun have home internet connection...so i need to find this solution A.S.A.P thanks...

As my problem settled n i decided to let you guys know how to recover back all...err not 100% guarantee, but almost 99% you can get back all of your files using this R-Studio (Latest is 3.0) downloadable at R-Studio Data Recovery --- remember it's demo n it only allowed u to recover maximum 64KB in size no matter how big ur file is...
i'm not going to tell you how to pay/crack or watsoever...

from my experience using this, this R-Studio can be use a recovery or undelete files solution as it can almost recover from anything, either from formatted partition, accidentally deleted the file, emptied recycle bin...

in my case...i use my Maxtor 80GB which is was in Dynamic Mode, unreadable after format C:\ and clean install WinXP SP2. so i use R-Studio Data Recovery...
what i'm trying to say is...before all this happen, (i don't know why it happen in first place), all my partition in 80GB is in dynamic mode, yes, it's stated NTFS but it still dynamic mode, if i force them to convert to basic, i might be in risk to lost some data, so here's R-Studio will help...

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note that in Maxtor drive, there's available partition which is G:\, H:\ n I:\ n this is current working partition after converted to Basic from Dynamic.

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right click on one of those partition - those with unrecognized partition (no drive letter one) - select open

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u clicked n this dialog appears...

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click which folder/apps you want to recover -- keep in mind, not 100% things can full recover ok...
those in X mark is those long² deleted file, while un-X mark is the one last folder before i format it...

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say... i mark on NFS Most Wanted folder which i remember, i was moved this folder to another partition 6 months ago...

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nothing much to say...in recovering process
before i forgot, you'll need xtra space HDD to put ur recovered file, my suggestion, get another HDD as mr. lucifah told me earlier.

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yeah...succesfully recovered...my guesstimation...it takes about 10 minutes to recover almost 20GB of file.

the result...
i could play the NFS Most Wanted - theoritically... until i found something interesting...
well...i recovered all of my MTV Collection, n some of the file seems like exchange with another file...say...i launch Cradle Of Filth - Nymphentamine.mpg, n Media Player plays Siti Nurhaliza - Bukan Rahsia.mpg , true...n i dunno why/ n how's that happen...
thanks guys...
i hope this can help you...

This post has been edited by sniper69: Jan 12 2007, 05:21 PM

yes...u need to convert the disk to Basic which is going to data lost after converting, but dun worry, R-Studio is here to help...

2nd Q, yeap, some file (1%) only, appeared to be wrong 'recovered' dunno why...recovered Cradle Of Filth - Nymphentamine.mpg (filename) but when played, no video (*.mpg) but only audio (*.mp3/*.wav- not sure), with different song...in this case, Siti Nurhaliza - Bukan Rahsia wtf...

hmm...for those came up problem with recovery tools, i highly recommend to use R-Studio with my guidance at

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...dpost&p=7854899