[bloodraven]

here's the story:

I have 200GB maxtor harddrive (as a slave)... th thing is that windows recognizes the correct drive size only along with special software provided by maxtor... without it windows shows it as a 137 GB harddrive... before formatting the primary master, I made backups on the 200GB maxtor (in total amount of 157 GB)...
now after formatting, windows told that some of the files are corrups or unreachable (probably because of the reason that I hadn't this drive expansion software installed)... after a restart the scandisk program appeared automatically and started to delete some (over 60000) index entries - then recovered them (atleast the messages showed so)...
now with everything nearly working, windows shows me that 51GB of the 200GB drive is used - eventhough there SHOUL be 157GB of data...

any clues or help in such kind of situation?.. I mean... when windows deleted the indexes does it mean that the files physically excist on the drive and can they be recovered in any possible way?..

or what else should I do...

Regards to any kind of help...

[Riivo]

maybe program called Get Data Back will help

[toivos]

If your data are to you very valuable then get help from expert. Otherwise you can experiment with data recovery software. Before it, you must see full size of drive in windows. Install the latest service pack.

[RCC]

In windows 2000 and Xp must be value in registry BigLbaEnabled cause windows recognizes only first 137 and everything which is beyond will be overwritten