Lost 10yrs of data on a 1.5TB HDD, please read...please help

[vinokirk]

Hello,
I was trying to put UBCD (ultimate boot cd) on a usb stick using the supplied 'ubcd2usb' but it didn’t work, so I thought I would use the command 'ubcd2usb f: h: d -1', but nothing appeared to happen….until I restarted.

Some how it has made my 1.5TB hdd with all my stuff on from the past 10 years…not work, for lack of a better term. That command i put in wrote the ubcd to disk 1 which was the 1.5tb hdd not the usb memory stick! But it didnt write the ubcd to the disk it just made it 'unfunctional'
I also did 'ubcd2usb f: h: d -2' which made disk 2 (the 750gb hdd with windows on it) also unfunctional.

I have another 300gb disk with windows on which I didnt wipe fortunately. So When I go into computer management it says the disk is not initialised for both of the 1.5tb and .75tb disks. I know the datas all there but how do I get it back in too a readable state? I can only presume this program to get 'ultimate boot cd' has done something to teh MBR.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I have not re-initialized the disk. There are 10yrs worth of photos tv music on there!
Calvin Kirk

[vinokirk]

I know i could use software to recover my data.
I presume this would mean I would have to 're-initialize' the hard disk in Windows Disk Management?
I am scared that if I reinitialize it and use recovery software that all the filenames will be lost.
Is there anyway I can just write a new MBR to them?

[GDH]

Hi,

The original file names are stored in the Master File Table, not the Master Boot record.

Without doing anything to the disk, when you run Recover My Files (Data Recovery Software to Undelete Files; Disk recovery; Recover Deleted Files) are you able to see it as a physical drive in the drive selection window? If so, you need to run a Recover Drive search on the "hard disk" in automated mode.

[jake1496]

hello everyone! I bought a Lenovo PC two years ago but hadn't used it since the last year. Then I found I even can't power it up a few days ago. Who can tell me the reason?

[Pappie]

I did the same thing as you did with 1TB external drive, I ran a virus scan thru mine, which changed the files, I did nothing with the drive, I spent a month trying to get a program that worked and not give File0001 to File10000, Recover my Files recovered all the data that was lost and a lot of other material that been deleted from the drive which you will have to sort out
It saved me a lot of time. It does not destroy the data on the drive so you can run it over and over, I ran it about 10 times on mine, It may take a while on such a large drive.

Pappie