You didn't mention, but once or twice, I've set up a drive as a slave in
another system and got lucky. Copied the files over. Must admit though I
never had such a serious data recovery problem.

<shrug> It's worth a shot.


<snip>
>
> 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???
>

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