HDD Recovery

PDD

Hi Folks,

I was wondering if someone here could recommend a place in Dublin that does HDD recovery? I have a HDD that had a load of partitions on it and when I was re-arranging the system using Acronis they all seemed to have been fubared. Now I have 23 1Gb partitions which are all duplicate of my mail partiation. They were all FAT32 so I think its just the FAT thats messed up but I dont know if the partitions can be recovered.

I know its a long shot and it'll be expensive but there are some pretty valuable files on there. Is there any place that does an analysis/report before I fork out money for nothin?

Regards,

Dave

tbh

There's a place out by phibsboro shopping center, not sure what they were called. Pricey mind you (but it was worth it in my case)

edit:
http://www.datarecovery.ie/

Capt'n Midnight

if you have screwed up partitions then look at www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
to recover files look at photorec on the same site - take a good long look at the files it lists on the preview before you write to the disk, make sure you go a few folders deep to make sure it don't go to mush after the first few
best to save existing partition table anyway -if not sure get a techie friend to look too

23 partitions !
as long as it only created the partition tables then data loss might be minimal
however, if you cloned a 1gb partition 23 times which would have taken ages then it might have overwritten underlying data.

uch

Try ontrack easy recovery, i've seen this recover formatted drives, but as Cap't says if you cloned same partition you could be f ucked

Capt'n Midnight

photorec will allow you to recover files regardless of the file system, it's also read only so won't make things worse.