Partitions lost by Mac OS

[wititw]

Hi there,

I accidentally erased partitions (3 NTFS) on my external harddrive through mac os x's disk utility. I was trying to format one of the partition to FAT32 using mac but somehow it erased all the partition information. I quickly disconnected the drive and did not do anything else afterwards.

I downloaded recovermyfiles and ran fastformatrecover. The software sees all my data. But I have a little issue with some of the files that were named in Japanese or Thai. I can't save those files to another location. Part of the file name contains ??? which I think is the reason why I can't save them.

Is there a walk around for this? Will changing regional and language option in windows xp help? It's now set to US english.

Or is it possible to recover the partition information and all files without transferring them to another harddrive?

Please advice. All 8 years of my data is in there.

Thanks so much,
Witit

[GDH]

Hi,

Do you get an error message when you try and save them? What is the exact message?

[wititw]

I am able to save the files now after changing regional and language setting. I'm in a process of transferring the data to another harddrive.

The transferring is very slow. Is there a way to make it faster? Or is there a way to just recover the partition as I asked earlier?

Thanks,
Witit

[GDH]

Saving the files uses the same routine as Windows so the saving process should be the same speed as copying a file from one drive to another. I am not sure what different language file names would slow down the process.

Recover My Files will not write to the original drive being searched. You must save recovered files to another drive. It is designed this way so it will never make the situation worse (i.e. change the contents of the problem drive) and you are free to try different recovery options.