Hi Guys,
Can any one recommend any software or have any ideas to help with the following?
PC with 2 hard drives in RAID 0 (stripped) - using onboard Nvidia chip.
3 partitons: XP (32bit) / Win7 (64bit) / Data - all NTFS.
Office 2010 beta was installed on the Win7 partition. It ran out of disk space though. After this the data partition has gone! (seen as unused space by Windows)
I downloaded the free Partition Wizard and the recovery mode can see the data partition that was there and does a simple list of data on it to confirm (if only it would let me copy it out!). If you try and recover it though it wants to screw with the Windows 7 partition.
To me it looks like the Windows 7 partition when it filled up has "ballooned" or something over the data partition - god knows how!!
I downloaded a trial of Ontrack Pro out of interest but that just doesn't show any partitions in Win7 (64bit and drivers maybe something to do with it?) and in XP it just crashes (32bit so no idea why it crashes).
I dabble in Linux but not thought too hard down this path yet because of the RAID being 'software' and the headaches I've had with Linux and this before. No idea of any tools to help with Linux either (any one mind if I double post this to the Linux forum?).
I'm not too fussed about recovering the actual partition but just get the data off it and on to a USB HDD or across the networ, that I can then copy back later after recreating a blank partition.
Thank you!
Shell
Can any one recommend any software or have any ideas to help with the following?
PC with 2 hard drives in RAID 0 (stripped) - using onboard Nvidia chip.
3 partitons: XP (32bit) / Win7 (64bit) / Data - all NTFS.
Office 2010 beta was installed on the Win7 partition. It ran out of disk space though. After this the data partition has gone! (seen as unused space by Windows)
I downloaded the free Partition Wizard and the recovery mode can see the data partition that was there and does a simple list of data on it to confirm (if only it would let me copy it out!). If you try and recover it though it wants to screw with the Windows 7 partition.
To me it looks like the Windows 7 partition when it filled up has "ballooned" or something over the data partition - god knows how!!
I downloaded a trial of Ontrack Pro out of interest but that just doesn't show any partitions in Win7 (64bit and drivers maybe something to do with it?) and in XP it just crashes (32bit so no idea why it crashes).
I dabble in Linux but not thought too hard down this path yet because of the RAID being 'software' and the headaches I've had with Linux and this before. No idea of any tools to help with Linux either (any one mind if I double post this to the Linux forum?).
I'm not too fussed about recovering the actual partition but just get the data off it and on to a USB HDD or across the networ, that I can then copy back later after recreating a blank partition.
Thank you!
Shell
