Considering Acronis...

[markheus]

I accidently fdisked a partition on my USB drive (HP Personal Media Drive) and am considering software for recovery.

I have Partition Magic but for whatever reason it wasn't able to recover the partition. I've tried a free program ( PC File Recovary) by a company called Convar - but it wasn't able to restore all my music files (only about half of them were recoverable apparently)

I've been demoing a program called called R-Studio and it seems like a good program but it seems like it recovers individual and not the whole partition at a time.

From the various download sites I've read differing opinions and was curious what kind of experiences everyone has had recovering partitions from USB drives and regular drives.

Note: I haven't done anything to this drive - just trialed various recovery utilities on it.

[Acronis Support]

Hello markheus,

Thank you for your interest in Acronis Partition and Disk Managing Software (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/).

Could you please clarify what exact operations you have performed while using the "fdisk" tool?

Please be aware that in case you have formatted a partition then Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 will be not able to recover data on it, since Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 can operate only with an unallocated space on a hard drive to find and recover deleted or lost partitions.

I recommend you to download and install the free trial version of Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/diskdirector/) to see whether it can recognize deleted partition on your hard drive.

Thank you.
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Kirill Omelchenko

[markheus]

All I did was delete the partition. I haven't done anything else to the drive.

Thank you for your response - but I decided to go with a dedicated recovery program.

[Acronis Support]

Hello markheus,

If you have just deleted a partition then Acronis Recovery Expert embedded into Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 should find it and should be able to recover it. However, please try to perform a recovering using the free trial version as I have suggested above. If the trial version recognizes your deleted partition then the full one will be able to recover it.

Thank you.
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Kirill Omelchenko