Hard drive help

[Mrsash]

Well this is what i did
C: Seagate 80Gb Primary
D: Seagate 17.2 GB Slave


My backup drive Seagate 17.2 GB i made primary and set it active for just a second. This i did coz my 80GB primary was getting recognised as 2GB so by mistake i did the above. Now i have put this drive in back in my Pc and i cant access the drive. It tells me to format it. I tried doing a defrag whcih at my amazement let me see the file structure(the stuff i had backed up) but defrag had not finised coz it gave me errors. Now i can see the files and folders levels as far as 3 levels but on others i cant and some bare files which i could access were the TxT files whcih i caould copy somewhere else. Now the drive tells me its 14.4 Gb occupied which is right, but on all other files whcih are over a MB it does not let me copy it. Have I los tall other data or is there a way to recover. I would really Be in oyur debt if you guys can help me out.


thanks

[weboneando]

My backup drive Seagate 17.2 GB i made primary and set it active for just a second

This changed the MBR partition table in the HD, what you need is to restore to the old one, try using Partition Magic.

[Mrsash]

How do i restore it?
Can partition magic fix this and if it can what option should i use
I really cant afford to lose this data Plz help
thanks

[weboneando]

First install partition magic, then enter the program and select thedisk in question and in tools menu select "check for errors" this should work.

[Mrsash]

I did try that but it did not find any errors could be the fact that m 17.2Gb is getting recognised as 1 Gb . Does anyone know why that is?

[weboneando]

Have you tryied Ontrack EZ Recovery? it can´t restore the partition but it can help you to rescue the files so you can ove them to another drive.

[Mrsash]

Man i could kiss you. It worked for all my sons pics i had since he was born. He is now 13 months. I got other things back whcih were in a single file. but cab,zip other files i got it in bundles which i cannot put together coz the file names are all new Eg File 1,2,3 and not the original filename, but heck i am happy with my kids pictures, i can download the rest of the stuff from the Web


once again thanks