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I have a 700+ GB drive that was full up to 600GB. With 100GB of free space, I tried doing a split partition (partition magic), and a power outage caused the partition get mess up mid split. Nothing showed up. 700GB of free space. I lost 600GB of valuable data. After stupidly trying some random partition tools in hopes to recover the partition table, undo the split, repairing the partition, doing a fix boot, etc, I think I ended up making the problem worse. It has had its partition info changed numerous times in numerous ways from numerous programs, but just in case, I never actually put any data on the drive in hopes not to overwrite it if it still existed. Right now it only shows up as an emptyn physical drive, unformatted.

After trying numerous programs, you're was the only one that actually found some data. But sadly, after about 120+ hours of searching (2 times, because i had to restart my computer after the first 100 hours) detecting over a million mpegs (I have NO IDEA why, as as far as I know there were no mpegs on the disk) it gave me an "out of memory" error. I have 4GB 1066mhz ram. After reading the forums, I decided to use the version latest version (as I was using version 2 before).

Like version 2 however, version 3 also has a lot of various search options. Since this is big drive with at least 600+GB of data on it that needs to be recovered (and dozens of thousands of files, mostly mp3, avi, pdf, and rar), I don't want to try every different combination of options and then wait a week for each option to finish, only to discover it didn't find what I'm looking for, and then having to do the same with the next option. It would take a month to find my files.

Can you kindly tell me what are the optimal search parameters for this situation?

To sum up:
File types mainly consist of; avi, mp3, rar, pdf. Others do exist however.
Partition data has been changed, moved, undeleted, and deleted several times in various combinations.
No "new data" has been written to the disk.
600GB+ of the 700GB is used, and if possible, needs to be recovered.

What I wish is that I could just restore the drive to before the split, and that I don't have to "recover" and copy all those files to a new harddrive. However, just in case I have to, I picked up a 1TB drive just for this occasion

Pleaaaaaaase help. Thanks!