[Shotimes] OT: file recovery utilities

[cmichaelo@optonline.net]

Ian,

Sounds like you have both lost your partition information, or that the partition info has been damaged, which might explain why your drive is full all of a sudden.

You said up front that you have bad sectors. How do you know this?

There are ways to examine and possibly recover a harddrive that doesn't boot and which has messed up partition info.

Check out testdisk:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

testdisk and other freeware recovery utilities are discussed here:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1139


Michael
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