Calling all data recovery experts.....

What are your suggestions to recover data files from a hard drive with
missing/corrupted partition table, boot sector, FATs and root directory?

The drive still works and the files are probably all there. It's a
4.55Gb Quantum Bigfoot with, as far as I know, a single FAT32 partition.

I have tried unsuccessfully to recover the drive with Norton Disk
Doctor. I can read the data on the drive with Norton Diskedit and
similar programs. But I can't retrieve any files. DOS and Windows can't
access the drive at all, and Diskedit just shows five gobbledygook
filenames in the root directory and no directory entries. I'm dreading
the huge job of searching out and piecing together files using just a
sector editor...Ugghh!!
I've tried three other programs which claim to recover files in these
sorts of circumstances. None of them worked. There must be a way...What
is it???

Cheers
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Kevin Johnson
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