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EASUS Partition Recovery, Data Recovery Wizard and Paragon Partition & Hard Disk Manager


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#1 skyide

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Posted 26 March 2011 - 11:29 AM

A few hours ago, I used a UFD formatting tool to format a UFD but it somehow decided to do its work on the wrong drive despite the fact of being set to the correct drive letter. Funny thing is, normally I unplug important drives with data when I do stuff like this as I have never experienced any problems but somehow today (although I was thinking about it) I decided to leave my main back up drive plugged in. BIG MISTAKE.

Fortunately, it did not format my backup drive but it made it unreadable. Basically, every time I plugged the drive in, Windows notified me that the drive is unreadable and asked me if I want to format it. Yep you have all seen this scary message. Of course I refused to do so. I tried viewing the partition table/setup/mapping using a variety of partitioning tools and all of them detected the partition (one partition only) but for a file system type they all either had "unformatted" or "not formatted".

Ok, this can't be good I said. I know the data is there but it can't read it and I even tried (hoping) linux would somehow manage to read the NTFS partition by mounting it but of course the mounting failed.

So I decided to try EASUS Partition Recovery.

EASUS Partition Recovery scanned my drive and it listed two partitions, the one with the unreadable/unformatted file system and *yet* another one which was listed as a normal NTFS partition. This somehow must have been hidden. The thing is, I know I only had one partition on the drive. Probably the "unformatted" one and the one with the data were somehow associated. I selected the one with the NTFS file system and it asked me if I am sure I want to undelete or something within those lines the lost partition and I said yes. It only took a few seconds and it fixed the problem. I got a success message, I double clicked the drive and everything was there. The drive is readable again. Problem fixed....

This is the second time EASUS successfully saves my data. Last time I partially formatted the wrong drive (I cancelled during format), it made my drive unreadable. I reformatted the drive and everything was gone. After trying many freeware and trial ware tools, *not one* found any files whatsoever even with their "expert", "advanced" data recovery techniques. EASUS Data Recovery Wizard successfully recovered my data. It reconstructed nearly the entire file system of the formatted partition.

I am posting this in case someone else finds him/herself in a similar situation and if you do, you can try these two tools. Another product that I am extremely satisfied is Paragon Partition Manager. It successfully let me move partitions without any dramas. I deleted a partition and I had an empty gap of unused space and it let me drag the partition infront towards the unused space so it swapped the unused space with the partition in front of it literally. It then let me resize it and I clicked Apply and it successfully completed the operation. I have also used Paragon Hard Disk Manager Live mode in the past during my XP days to restore a fresh new image it created and it always worked. A complete restore including the boot sectors with the boot manager.

#2 davlak

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Posted 26 March 2011 - 01:06 PM

I often use EASUS D.R. and partitioning tools, and I find those products are probably at the top.
another very useful tool is Partition Table Doctor, which helped me into recoverying\rebuilding the right partition table on various HDs.

#3 skyide

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Posted 26 March 2011 - 09:15 PM

Yeah *some* EASUS tools are pretty good such as the two mentioned above but in back up and partitioning, I am more comfortable with Paragon's tools.




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