Recover Data Files, Unerase Files

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Hi, I’ve recently started having problems on my computer. Ever so often when while watching a video or performing some resource intensive task the computer freezes up with no mouse or keyboard response. Only a hard reset brings things back to life. However the event view does not show any errors in applications or system. Could this be a sign of impending HDD failure? if so how do I tell which disk is about to fail. I am running windows XP professional. I have also had to replace the motherboard recently and as a result of this I had to reinstall the OS, which was a clean reinstall, in fact I backed up all my data and formated each partition. Thanks in advance for any advise.
No, I don’t really play all that many games, I do use AutoCAD, Photoshop Etc and fairly large files. so you can imagine the trouble with freezing when I am in the middle of a large file. I tried Vista but the problem was even worse, so I went back to XP. I have 2GB DDR2 RAM, Processor is Core 2 Duo 2,13 GHz. I have worked with 300MB files without any issues in the past
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How to retrieve data from a recovered partition?

I have a 160 GB HDD with following partitions.

Active Partition – 40 GB
Extended Partition
* Logical 1 – 20 GB – FAT32
* Logical 2 – 100 GB – FAT32

I accidentally tried to merge Logical 2 to 1 and killed the process before it completes.

Now, I no longer have access to Logical 2 drive. I recovered the Logical 2 partition using Partition Magic, but I don’t know how to recover the files/folders.

When I logon to Windows XP, all I can see is Active & Logic 1 drives.

Any help highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Is there a program or something? Because I recovered some deleted pictures and zip folders with an un-delete program and when I try to open the picture in windows picture and fax viewer it says”No Preview Availible”. And when I try to open a zip folder I recovered it says: “The compressed (zipped) folder is invalid or corrupt”. But the files still have data inside them in the properties menu it says that the file(s) is 56.1 KB, so it should be able to open. Is there a program that can access the files even though they supposedly have “missing” data? By the way I am running Windows XP SP2 with all the updates and stuff. PLEASE try and answer, thanks

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The hard drive was off and I know NO ONE accessed it between the last time I saw the files and this morning. I think that since it appears that the data is still present, there is a chance to save it. Any pointers?

The USB connector to my External Hard Drive broke off, is my Ex Hard Drive permanently damage? Or can I still recover the data from it?
The USB connector to my External Hard Drive broke off, is my Ex Hard Drive permanently damage? Or can I still recover the data from it?’

The External Hard Drive is WD Passport and there only one of connecting it to a computer. My question are there other ways of accessing an External Hard Drive other than use of a USB cable?

I have a Seagate 500 GB/7200rpm something or other hard drive that suffered trauma when the Macbook it was in hit the ground. The drive is like 2 years old. I sent it to Data Recovery Labs and they quoted $1690 to recover the data. Surely there must be an alternative that *normal* people can afford? Any tips?
What do you mean by “freezing it”?
But can this be done if the dead computer can’t even be booted?