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  1. Hi again Alan, So, I have installed and run MiniTool Partition Wizard and low and behold it finds my entire hard drive contents just as you predicted! Woohoo! However, when I click through each of the screens and get to "Finish", it doesn't do anything. I watched the video (http://www.partitionwizard.com/video-help/partition-recovery-wizard/partition-recovery-wizard.html ) as well as followed the instructions here: http://www.partitionwizard.com/help/partition-recovery.html. Everything is pretty self explanatory and works perfectly, but when I click "Finish" nothing happens. The pop-up disappears and it returns to the main page and my HDD is still "empty". Am I missing something? It is like it is dangling a carrot in front of me! So close, yet so far! lol. Thanks so much, tan.
  2. Thanks so much Alan and Dennis! I will do as you both suggest and post an update asap. This is going to be a loooong day. Thanks so much again!
  3. Hi there, this is Jaimyn's mum, the one who's world imploded when this happened last night. Here is what has happened: I had massive HDD issues yesterday and my computer was crashing and all sorts of errors popping up. So, I did some maintenance on it, cleaning up drives, defraging, ccleaner etc. When complete, I thought I would do the Drive Wiper on my main working external drive too, and selected to "wipe free space" (using the 3 pass option) on the drive, thinking it would help it to run more smoothly. I then merrily went off to the gym and returned to find my entire drive wiped. All 300gb of it, and about 2 months worth of yet to be edited client RAW files, as well as my new website and blog coding and artwork that I have been working on since my last website was hacked and deleted 2 months ago. There is HEAPS of other stuff gone too, but my little head just can't comprehend it right now. So, after falling in a heap and blubbering like a baby for a few hours, I went to work and with the help of my precocious (13yo) son and awesome hubby, we started to run recovery software on my SD cards in the hope of recovering the RAW files at least. To answer the questions posted above, and to run some more: 1. Windows Explorer sees nothing but a completely empty drive with 298gb "free" (on a 300gb external drive). 2. Disc Management says: Layout - "simple", Type - "Basic", File System - "NTFS", Status - "Healthy", Capacity - "298.09gb", Free Space - "269.21gb", % Free - "90%", Fault tolerance - "No", Overhead - "0%". Below this, it has all of my attached drives listed and for the one in question, it simply says "Disk 2 - Basic 2989.09 GB Online / Iomega HDD (I:) 298.09 GB NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition). 3. Operating system is Win 7, 64 bit. I have run Recuva and it has found a whole lot of files, but I haven't actually clicked on "recover" yet. I am too afraid to do more damage. I was planning on recovering them to a folder on my desktop. I also am running REMO Recover, which has the ability to restore file/folder structure and correct file names etc, but it will be 9 hours or so before I am able to see what it can retrieve. I am mainly concerned about the RAW (.dng) files, of which there were about 120gb on the drive (rough estimate). I am seeing some of them being found but they appear to be coming up as TIFFS, not sure why this is. Please no lectures about backing up etc. I have multiple mirrored (raid) drives that I do my final backups too, as well as cloud storage, but these never made it that far. I have been working interstate and run off my feet with commercial shoots these past two months and have just been dumping onto this HDD to clear my SD cards, planning to edit/backup as I can. So distraught over this, I just can't believe I could have done it. I really don't understand why, when Drive Wiper was supposed to only "wipe free space", it deleted everything? I actually double checked it and looked up the support doc on this website to confirm that it would only affect the free space before doing so, I was ultra careful and confident that it wouldn't affect any files on the drive, only the unused space? Thanks so very much for any help! Tanya.
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