[nycbug-talk] Fw: Recovering partition table and ntfs filesystem (intact) (on and off-topic)

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Trish Lynch wrote:

> To: talk at nycbug.org Sent: Sep 2, 2006 10:45 PM Subject: Recovering
> partition table and ntfs filesystem (intact) (on and off-topic)
> 
> I accidentally deleted the partition table of the wrong drive that
> contains 15,000 dollars worth of encoded cds that have been lost in
> moves or opacked in boxes and such and would take more then that type of
> investment to re-encode.
>  I lost the backup of it last week in a machine crash, and I was
> attempting to rebuild it when I deleted the wrong disk partition table
> (I just had a back surgery, teach me to dfo stuff on drugs)
> 
> Is there any way to recover the partition table and the intact ntfs
> partition on there? Or do I have to send it out to be recovered? (Which
> is more than I can afford right now, I cannot believe I lost all my
> music *grrrrr*))
Yes

try this first:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
then

http://www.vanheusden.com/findfile/

There's a whole bunch of commercial partition table recovery software: 
just google for 'partition table recovery'