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From: Holophote on 12 Aug 2008 10:28
I was deleting some redundant files
from an old USB 1.1 external hard drive.
The data on this drive consisted of
several gigabytes of software installer
packages.

I was planning to copy all this software
to a new system. For reasons I cannot
explain, the two partitions on this external
drive are lost. Windows Device Manager
shows the drive as normal, without drive
letter assignments. PartitionMagic displays
the entire drive as unallocated space.

I tried a couple of partition restore apps
that didn't do anything. Ontrack's
EasyRecovery Pro found almost fifty-
thousand files. Sound great, doesn't it?
The problem is the files are organized
into meaningless groups, according to their
file extension. They have alphanumeric
names like DC02, DC03, etc. Also,
completely meaningless.

This whole process of data recovery
is new to me, thank goodness! If you
have expertise in data recovery, I need
to know if I will ever get my software
back in a usable form.
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