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    Major Help !!!!!!!!!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by KSMB, Oct 7, 2009.

  1. KSMB

    KSMB Notebook Deity

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    ok, this is freaking bad. i have a Kingston USB stick 16GB with 12.99GB used info.....it remains loooots of old photos on my daughter and other important photos.

    today i brought home a Diagnostic tool from DELL.com, after i zipped it it aksed me if i wanted to create a bootable Diagnostic Partition on my usb stick........
    ok, i did that, BUT after it was done i just saw this Partition (just 4.4MB big, in FAT) and the rest of all my photos 12.99GB large (NTFS) is hidden somewhere on my usb stick.

    i have tried Ontrack easyrecovery 6.20.11 but its really weird, it scan and find 12GB but i cant copy all info to my Harddrive C:

    can someone hellp me to recovery my 12GB photos on my USB stick ?????

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    It looks like it deleted the partition to make the diagnosis partition. You'll have to snag an unformat/file recovery software utility.

    I personally haven't used an unformat utility in ages. I have an old Hiren's bootdisk I did use about two years ago to unformat that would work, but don't know of any utilities off hand to help ya atm.
     
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    have you any tips which software to use ?????

    like i said i been using Ontrack easyrecovery (Vista-support) but im not sure if i doing right or if thats the right software to use........maybe i should scan for RAW files ???? what do you think ????

    thanks
     
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    I'm not sure if EasyRecovery does unformats.

    Hiren's BootCD, which can also be used without booting, is what I used. You can download it off a torrent. or from this website.
     
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