Partition Editor - Recovery

[doctorized]

I have two hard disks, one 500GB with four partitions for installing Windows and Linux, and one 1TB with one partition for downloading and keeping files. Suddenly, today the second disk lost the partition. Windows and Linux say that the space on disk is unallocated. This thing happened once again before some months. Then, through Windows Disk Management I selected to create a new patrition on the disk and the disk came back with all the data on it. Today, this solution failed. I tried some partition recovery programs like Active@ Partition Recovery, PTDD Partition Table Doctor but none of them was able to restore the partition. Active@ File Recovery finds all the files on the partitions and it is able to restore them to an other disk but I do not have an other disk with 880GB free, as the disk is almost full, it has empty only 50GB form 931GB.

My question: is there any program that can see all the files on the disk and restore them to the file table? Just write down their existance in the table, is there? I do not care if it a free or commercial tool for Windows or Linux.
I have Win XP x86, 7 x64 and Ubuntu 10.04.

[blueznl]

Yes, there are multiple. Tour the web a little. I had a similar problem way baaaack and used something called 'Advanced Partition Recovery'. A colleague of mine recently had a similar problem, I'll ask him what he used.

[Mistrel]

Try using TestDisk:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

However, you may have inadvertently caused data to be lost in the partition table by creating a new partition over the old one.

[Vitor_Boss®]

I used Bootiting from TeraByte few years ago. Have a very nice button called "Recover" that button save my life 4 times.

But create a new partition over the lost one is a terrible "option".

[Mistrel]

If you can't recover the partition you should be able to get the data off easy peasy with GetDataBack if the format was FAT or NTFS. Again, possibly not with the second partition being written on top:

http://runtime.org

[doctorized]

TestDisk is one of the first apps that I used and did nothing. All the data that could be resqued, saved with Active@ File Recovery to an other disk from a friend. I do not know the app TeraByte. I will have it in mind if something like that goes wrong again in the futute.

Thank you all for your info.