Appropriate file recovery software

[Myau]

Could anyone please suggest the appropriate file recovery software for me? I have tried some applications which are not really doing the job properly.

I have a 250GB drive which use to be partitioned into 3 parts (~80GB each); now it has lost its original partitions, and only reads two partitions of ~128GB each.

I have not deleted any of my files or formatted the drive. They got turned into orphan files or something like that and they got lost, along with the original partitions.

So far, I have tried "Recover My Files", but it's recoverying files that use to belong to the drive's previous owner who formatted the drive. I don't care for those files. Also, the files are not recovered with their original names, and are recovered in small parts! i.e., 1 MP3 file of 30 Megs, will be recovered in tons of pieces of ~100 KB mp3 files!!

Can anyone suggest a more appropriate application that could fix/recover my original partitions, and my lost/orphaned files (which were not deleted) - AS they were named, and in their entirety??

Any help appreciated! Thanks so much!

[macko72]

http://www.pcinspector.de/download.a...#file_recovery

[glc]

Can anyone suggest a more appropriate application that could fix/recover my original partitions, and my lost/orphaned files (which were not deleted) - AS they were named, and in their entirety??

I doubt you will find anything that can fix this much damage. Macko has linked to the only free data recovery software I know of that has a prayer of working - you may have to go with $$$ software or even sending the drive in to a data recovery company - BIG $$$$$$$.