[Unable to read boot sector]

Can somebody confirm this? Is there no way to recover the files other than to format first they retry?

[Unable to read boot sector]

Bad mistake http://www.handyrecovery.com/handyrecovery-fw.exe using a professional data recovery tool like the link I provided, can recover files even from "raw" disk that windows prompts you to format.

 

This happens because of corrupted partition or MFT errors.

 

The version 4 of their software is very very good.

 

If you cannot get it back with that, you may as well hang it up. You had a good chance of recovering it, but when you formatted it, you made it so much harder on yourself.

 

No, no, never format until you do a handy recovery on it first.

 

Bad solution. I downloaded Handy Recovery because I also got the "unable to read boot sector" error message. But after installing and accessing the partition, it says "No valid supported file system present on the volume". So back to square 1... I'm going to try out UndeletePlus next, though I think there is no other solution than to format.