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Originally Posted by Pushead2
Tried RECUVA and it didn't recognize the hard drive because it wasn't formatted.
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Do you know the partition layout? Was the drive just one large partition?
Linux has tools that allow you to simply delete and recreate a partition. I do it from time to time when I've expanded a disk and want to resize the partition and then the filesystem.
I don't know of how you can do that in Windows. Searching seemed to come back with testdisk. Never really heard of it. There are some other suggestions too
https://superuser.com/questions/1337...osing-the-data
I've never used it but I know some people boot to gparted when they need to resize a root drive that someone didn't create with LVM. It's a graphical interface so thats nicer than command line
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
I'd just try to get to the data and copy it somewhere else. Linux doesn't require a partition to access a filesystem so hopefully you can just copy your data off w/ the below instructions under Attempting Data rescue
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/displ...me=help-manual
Realized these were all sourceforge. For a while they served up malware but I believe they've gone back legit. Here is a link right to gparted themselves it appears
http://gparted.org/livecd.php