Wow James, You have a lot of good questions. The hard drive is the original on a Windows xp home computer. It is an emachine so it is not a high end computer. It is the main drive for the computer. I pulled it out and have connected it to one of my win 7 64bit computers via a usb connection. It came prepartition off the shelf. I plan to reuse the hard drive if I can recreate the "C" partition. I am in the middle of getting all images, text files and music off the drive before I attempt to recreate the RAW drive. I read one fix which said to give the RAW drive a letter then run "chkdsk "X"/f and that might fix the partitions. I want to get all the files off the drive first. I have tried several File recovery programs but the problem is that each program only recovers a selection of files. What is happening is that program A gets me the first 400 files and program B gets me the next 300 files. I cannot find a program that will recover all the JPG files at one time. So I am stuck on what to do next, because I do not want to purchase several File Recovery Programs. Thanks for you info. Mike On 10/10/2013 7:50 PM, James Dugger wrote: > Mike, > > Some questions: > Have you used SMART on your PC as a first diagnostic tool? > Is the disk an add on to the PC? > How new is the drive? > What brand? > Was it or did it come pre-partitioned, and if yes was the partition > used as is or re-partitioned? > Is the partitioning scheme MBR or GPT? > Are you planning on continuing to use the HDD in the M$ PC.? > > I have had success with many of the latest Linux live CD's reading > HDD's that were questionable or unreadable to M$ systems. You could > download Ubuntu's latest Live CD or create a bootable USB of the image > plug it into the M$ PC boot Linux. Most newest Linux distro's Live > CD's will attempt to automount all discovered HDD's and read their > partitions. > > Or pull the drive and plug it into one of the Linux Boxes. If the > Linux OS is new enough and has a full Desktop Environment/GUI like > Gnome, or KDE etc. Most likely the disk management system will try to > automount the drive and read any existing partitions. If it comes up > immediately copy off / backup any files on the disk to the other > native disks on the Linux box. > > Good Luck. > > James > > > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Stephen > wrote: > > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk > > This has been quite successful for me in the past. > > On Oct 10, 2013 5:46 PM, "mike Enriquez" > wrote: > > I have a raw hard drive. It is a windows machine but I also > have some Linux Computers. It appears that if you pull the > electrical plug from your computer, it could cause your hard > drive to lose hard drive partition information. > I am not sure if the same can happen to a Linux computer, so I > want to find what is available just in case my files disappear > on my Linux machines. > My research has found that some software claims to be able to > solve lost file problems on both windows and Linux computers. > > I have no idea how good these application are? > > Recovering deleted files is also of interest to me. > > Thanks > Mike Enriquez > > > > > > > > On 10/10/2013 3:56 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: >> Mike, we need some information to understand the question. >> Is this a totally wiped drive, one with some problems, or >> just deleted files that you are asking about. Tell us you >> motivation so people can give valid and appropriate answers >> (other than restore from your backups). >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:35 PM, mike Enriquez >> > wrote: >> >> Does anyone know of software used to recover files in >> Linux and Winlow systems. >> I am looking for software that will work on both >> operating systems. >> Thanks for any help. >> Mike Enriquez >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry >> >> Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending >> messages to multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon >> copy). 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