recovery Partition

[nightfox2405]

Hi...

My recovery partition was touched by a nero autobackup software..and ive noticed that somethings change with my recovery partition, like the icon before was a disk now it a folder..**bleep** i hate this nero..it automatically import my recovery disk to my external drive.. i was shocked when i saw and emidietly canceled it, after that everything was gone now...the recovery prtitions free space was morethan 3 gb now but if i try to open it all i see is a folder having a 255mb size...

what i did was tried to recovered it using a nero also..and it was recovered but im not sure it was recovered all, and what was recovered now is turned into files..not like before that i think it was a data...

what do you guys think..?

What should i do whith these recovered files from my deletted or i dont know...partition...

I regret installong that nero....huhuhuhuhuhuh

[DavidPK]

Hi,

A useful utility for viewing all the files on your PC is called Free Commander, on the link below, as it displays folders that the Operating System normally hides and has a good search function.

http://www.snapfiles.com/php/download.php?id=107872&a=7122339&tag=601108&loc=10

This is a zipped file.  If you don't have an extraction utility installed, download and install 7-Zip which can be used to open this so that you can run the installer.

When installed, run the program and look at the Recovery partition and see if you can locate a folder that obviously relates to Nero - if you see this, cut it out of this partition.

Have you created your set of Recovery Discs?

Regards,

DP-K

[nightfox2405]

hi,,,,

 yes i have created a recovery disk, that is 4 dvd-r,

Listen sir, i have already delleted this partition and reformatted and have the same size 16GB. im only using it now for extra storage for my movies. But after all of that  did some recovery for the drive d: using nero and save it on my external drive..now the question is how to make this recovered files from the drive D: usefull...is their any way that this files can be tured in a recovery media again....

[DavidPK · Accepted solution]

Hi,

In my experience, you're unlikely to be able to get the recovery partition working again this way.  However, if you reinstalled the operating system using your Recovery Discs, this would also re-create the Recovery Partition on your HDD - obviously, if you decide on doing this, make sure that you back up all your files etc first.

Regards,

DP-K

[Pankay]

i dont think i understand that what exactly happend...

the recovery image gone from the recovery partition????

is it completly lost or stored somewhere??

plz elaborate,.....

[nightfox2405]

yeah its was exported by a nero autobackup software when i first installed my external drive to my laptop...mayby i accidentally turned it on...i was shocked that it is my recovery partition that it was exporting so i immedietly canceled the exporting session, after that...i checked my partition d: by opening it and noticed that the icon was change from a drive icon to a folder icon..and also the size of the partitions shows that it was a 16 GB but when i tried to open the d: partitions it has only a FOLDER having a 255MB size...why is that....?

it was not exported completely but after  that accident the only lteft in the Partition D: was a single Folder that is empty but having the size 255MB..

[Pankay]

ummmm

the icon doesn't matter...

some programs changes the file icons... thts not a problem

try this...

click on tools (at the top of the window)

folder options...

view tab

select "show hidden items"

click ok..

now check if you can see any recovery image in D drive???