I am not sure what exactly happened but I seem to have 'damaged' or 'corrupted' my hard disk which is a Hitachi 120GB which was formatted with 20GB Primary and 100GB Logical partitions in FAT32 and contained the Windows 98 operating system on the Primary Partition.
At the time I was trying to backup some large files from the logical partition to a DVD disk, using Nero 6.5 and about half way through copying I got the dreaded 'blue screen'!
I restarted the pc and 'everything' seems to have completely disappeared from both partitions.
As I have removable hard drive bays and I have tried, using another drive complete with Windows 2000 operating system and using various recovery software, including Easy Recovery; Restorer 2000 and R-Studio to recover the data but without any success.
I seem to remember that when I first tried to access the drive I got a message which mentioned that the disk was FAT12 but, I am afraid, I did not take much notice, choosing the easy option, as recommended, to convert to FAT32.
Apart from trying to recover the data using the software mentioned, I have not used the drive at all in order not to risk damaging any data that could be recovered by overwriting it.
The amount of data concerned is substantial, taking up some 70GB of disk space.
At first I tried to run the 'recovery software' on a 40GB hard drive and then I realised that the recovery drive needed to be larger than the damaged/corrupted one so I am now running it on a 200GB drive, but still no joy.
Is there anything else that I can try to recover this data?
At the time I was trying to backup some large files from the logical partition to a DVD disk, using Nero 6.5 and about half way through copying I got the dreaded 'blue screen'!
I restarted the pc and 'everything' seems to have completely disappeared from both partitions.
As I have removable hard drive bays and I have tried, using another drive complete with Windows 2000 operating system and using various recovery software, including Easy Recovery; Restorer 2000 and R-Studio to recover the data but without any success.
I seem to remember that when I first tried to access the drive I got a message which mentioned that the disk was FAT12 but, I am afraid, I did not take much notice, choosing the easy option, as recommended, to convert to FAT32.
Apart from trying to recover the data using the software mentioned, I have not used the drive at all in order not to risk damaging any data that could be recovered by overwriting it.
The amount of data concerned is substantial, taking up some 70GB of disk space.
At first I tried to run the 'recovery software' on a 40GB hard drive and then I realised that the recovery drive needed to be larger than the damaged/corrupted one so I am now running it on a 200GB drive, but still no joy.
Is there anything else that I can try to recover this data?