Quote Originally Posted by destro
Harry, is there any way possible that you know of that I might be able to get to the C drive in order to at least save my pictures. I have my kids baby pictures on there that I never backed up(the past 6 months or so). ??
I also have a couple of drives with partitions that windows mucked up, and I can't recover files from them either. If gpart can fix a MBR then great, and sometimes Knoppix will mount a partition even when windows will not, but if these don't work I don't know anything in the Linux world that will help you.

There are some commercial programs that claim to be able to recover files. Steve Gibson makes lots of vague claims about SpinRight, but as far as I can tell it can only help if the data on the sectors has "gone bad", it doesn't really seem to know anything about NTFS or be able to fix anything that Windows did if the bits are wrong but nice and solid. I have looked at several other commercial software programs, many have free trials that will look at your data and tell you if they think they can recover anything, but then hld your data ransom untill you pay them. In my case I only found one package that could even tell me what was on one of my disks, couldn't recover the other, and it wanted way too much money for what I had out there for me to pay them to get the data. (Sorry, I don't recall the name of the program). If anyone knows a better way I would welcome it too, I still have those two drives waiting and hoping that I will be able to recover from them.