I wanted to install another Linux on my computer, so I tried to resize one of my NTFS partitions with Norton Partition Magic. It didn't complete successfully, showed some errors, said that the partition is not resized and that it's the same size like before. But when I rebooted my computer I couldn't open that partition anymore and I am also not able to mount it from Linux.
So this is my question: I had very important data on that partition – can I recover it? I guess nothing's deleted; it's just something messed up so it's not usable, but can I get it back? Please reply if there's any possible way of doing this, thank you.
Best Answer
Yes, you can probably get most of it back, but it would take a lot of effort and might cost a lot of money. Of course you should have had a backup before doing any kind of partitioning work, but if that wasn't done and if it is very important data, the first thing to do would be to make sure that you don't allow any more changes to that drive and copy the drive bit for bit to another drive. Copy the entire hard drive to an identical drive. You might do this twice so that you'll have two copies of the bad drive. You can then send your drive (or a copy thereof) to a service that will recover the data. To find such a service, just google for "hard disk data recovery".
There are also software packages that can try to recover your data, but a service might be able to do it better and faster.