Hi I am in the need of some really good data recovery utilities. Preferably I need to have them be able to work with both linux and XP PRO NTFS partitions. What hapened was that my windoze partiiton went nuts, and I ended up loading mepis on another hard drive. Somehow a linux LVM partition got formatted over the NTFS part. So the data was already somewhat corrupted and on top of that it has been reparted. So I need a decent program.

It sounds pretty bad since it is corrupted and reparted, but from what I understand data is a lot harder to get rid of then that. So I am sure that there are some good utilities out there that would do the trick. I just don't happen to know which ones they are. So if anyone has any experience in this area, I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

Thanks for everyone's help!

I would pull the drive out and set it as a slave. Then use this software. I'm not sure how well it will work for you, but I was able to get lots of data back off a drive this week from a partition that got corrupt.

http://www.data-recovery-software.ne...Recovery.shtml

Hey, thanks for responding, I will give that one a try

Anytime!