NBR You Are My Last Hope....(harddrive corrupted)

hello, i recently installed ntfs-3g and macfuse , so my external harddrive could be both read/write capable. the files installed properly and worked at first but then were moved or deleted not sure. the hard drive now reads as "invalid parameter" in windows. it can be seen by both os but not explored. i HAVE tried everything.

my last i idea is to reformat and then try to recover the deleted files with a freeware program. not sure if it wold work. i hate having a drive with 232 gigs of important files to me dissapear like this because of a simple mistake. especially when i can see the harddrive but cant get to it. how much would it cost to get the the data recovered. keep in mind this not a hardware defect.

 

Did you tried to boot it with Linux and copy the file?

 

I wouldnt recommend reformatting the drive. I am no expert, but it doesn't sound like a good idea.

 

Try GDB for NTFS. This utility has saved my life more than once when the partition table in the drive is destroyed.

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

 

reformatting the drive is likely the opposite of what you want to do.

use a linux live CD to boot into linux, and then try to recover your files from there.