NXTwoThou

Using TestDisk's deeper search mode, I made each one of the found partitions set as bootable one at a time and used my Vista disk in repair mode. On the third partition I tried, the Vista disk found it and ran a repair on it and made it bootable. I ran a chkdsk and it fixed some errors, then needed to run sfc /SCANNOW to put everything back right. But I'm back up and running. Just in case anyone else has the same issue.

I'm unbelievably angry at this point. I've been using another computer and downloading drive testing utilities left and right trying to recover the drive. Testdisk had some limited results in being able to see things, but it hasn't been able to make it bootable again, keeps going into the gateway recovery mode from the other partition. Anyone have any other suggestions?

I've used CrapCleaner forever and finally downloaded Defraggler 1.07.124 yesterday for my home machine(Vista Home Premium 64). I ran a chkdsk, then a windows defrag, then installed and ran Defraggler overnight. When I got up this morning, I decided to run it a second time, it came up and said "Analysis failed". Paranoid, I tried to run chkdsk, but, nothing happened. I dropped to a comand prompt and tried a chkdsk /f and get this: The type of the file system is RAW. Cannot lock current drive. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. I pretty sure if I reboot my machine right now, I'm toast. Right now I'm desperately trying to find any fix online for this problem. Do the developers watch this forum at all? What the hell did your software do to my drive? This is completely unacceptable.