You can't.  You can only use a third party program to recover data that isn't corrupted. 
Spinrite is for a totally different purpose, where the surface of the drive platters 
may be going bad and losing data, or head alignment is failing.  It then tries to 
recover data from bad areas and move it to a new part of the drive, only if there 
is room.  Some of the pro software recovery programs can repair a limited number 
of problems to then recognize file/partition structures for easier recovery.  See 
here for an example of one I use professionally.

www.atl-datarecovery.com

They have FAQ's of what's possible and not possible for retrieving data.  If it doesn't 
work, you are out of luck I would say..  The free recovery solutions won't help where 
corruption is severe and/or due to some electro/mechanical failures IME.

All this said however, if there is an electro/mechanical problem, software may be 
useless in reading any data.  In that case, only a pro recovery lab would be able 
to recover data at an expensive price most often.  Good Luck!







On Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 1:14 pm, Mike wrote:

>I have a windows 2000 (maybe xp) pc with a bad hard drive.  I ran Spinrite and now 

>I can see the drive under disk management, but it shows unallocated.  How can I 
restore 

>the partition/data without formating and deleting the data?  Thanks! 

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