I lost 5 Gb!!! after running chkdsk

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I wanted to "merge" two partitions of my hard disk using "PartitionMagic",
but en error appeared and suggested me to use CHKDSK to fix it. I did it and
chkdsk worked for about 15min "repearing" the partition.
But awful surprise!!! When my PC started to work again, 5 GB of my personal
information where gone!!!!
I'm desperate... I've tried to use many undelete softwares, but none of
them worked. What did chkdsk do to my files?!?!?

HELP ME PLEASE!!!

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Hi, MCarabelli.

An alternative to the big-bucks data recovery services that Jerry mentioned,
you might try something like R-Studio, from www.r-tt.com. It worked for me
to recover about 10 GB of data from a Chkdsk scramble of a 25 GB volume a
year or two ago. I see by their website that things have changed a little
since I bought it. Now you can buy a version for NTFS or for FAT for $50
each, or the version that works on both for $80.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP

"MCarabelli" <MCarabelli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7592B6FD-9DB0-4451-B545-F21C46697C07@microsoft.com...
>I wanted to "merge" two partitions of my hard disk using "PartitionMagic",
> but en error appeared and suggested me to use CHKDSK to fix it. I did it
> and
> chkdsk worked for about 15min "repearing" the partition.
> But awful surprise!!! When my PC started to work again, 5 GB of my
> personal
> information where gone!!!!
> I'm desperate... I've tried to use many undelete softwares, but none of
> them worked. What did chkdsk do to my files?!?!?
>
> HELP ME PLEASE!!!