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Angelina · Guest

Bought a new 190Gb Maxtor hard drive and formatted normally. Noticed the disc space read 120 instead of the full 190 I used partition magic to get the full 190 gb and everything worked fine for a month or 2. Restarted my computer because a peculiar system error came up when I tried to open firefox and upon restarting, the computer thinks my hard drive is unformatted with no partitions and no data.

-quick formatted hard drive because my computer registered it as unformatted
-analysed it with Handy Recovery 2, I can see some of my files but they are spread out across 100s of randomly named folders
-I can recover some small AVI and jpeg files but most other files do not work when I recover them in particular no PSD (Photoshop) files work.

I don't need to recover the entire hard drive, I may not need to recover anything but I would like to be able to see a coherent list of the original folders and files just in case there is something important on there that I forgot about.

If anyone can help me with recovering or just seeing the data I would be very grateful