Hi,

After I killed all 4 of my partitions, they ended up in various
states. I was able to recover (nearly?) all of my data using R-studio
with just the normal MFT. No advanced search or anything like that was
necessary suggesting the MFT is largely okay. Obviously it's probably
best to just format the whole HD but out of technical interest, I'm
wondering if it's resonably easy to try and recover the partitions. 2
of the partitions were more or less recovered by chkdsk /f. 2 more
seem to be worse of.

One of them, has "Corrupt master file table" error. Chkdsk /f in
Windows XP just says aborted. Chkdsk /f in Vista says trying to
recover from disk but then fails. The second one has "Unable to
determine volume version and state". Neither Vista or Windows XP seem
to do anything with this one.

Any ideas? I have findpart so if you're interested Svend Olaf I can
send you any info needed.

Cheers