Please help T.T problem with my external HDD I'm about to loose all my precious photos

[jhk7784]

Hi guys I've been staying awake for almost 48 hours to get my P6T based PC to boot Snow Leopard which I finally did

 

succeed with so many glitches on the way. One problem I am facing where I just can't get my hands on is how I

 

screwed up my external HDD with all my photo collection ( I know I was stupid to mess around with a backup drive T.T).

 

Anyways the problem is, I had this drive partitioned to 3 different partitions which one of the partitions being SL install

 

DVD I did it with my MacBook pro using disk utility. The whole disk was formatted MBR with Mac OS

 

Extended(Journaled). Now here is the stupid part: I plugged this disk into my windows 7 based PC. This was the first

 

time I had plugged this into the PC and it told me I had to format the drive. So I went into disk management and by not

 

knowing what the hell I was doing, I accidently changed the drive to "active". After that I tried to plug in this external

 

drive back to my macbook pro and it gives me an error whenever I mount this drive. So I'm stuck on both ends. I can't

 

read the disk on both platforms. I tried to turn it back to inactive mode using diskpart.exe in CMD on windows 7 but it

 

won't let me select the partition. I think it's because it says the drive is formatted RAW (it's what it says in disk

 

management in windows 7). Is there anyway I can do so that I can access my files in this external drive?

 

My wife is going to kill me if I can't recover the photo collections as it's got all our marriage photos and photos of my

 

son growing up so I really really really need to find some solution. Please help. Thank you

[hbk_007]

try using the partition manager (GParted) in Ubuntu Linux. download a free copy from ubuntu.com, make a disc out of it, and boot the live disc. hopefully u can see your partitions and the files in GParted. It is very reliable, but u cant write anything into the partition if it is HFS+ (Journaled), thats the only drawback.

[jhk7784]

try using the partition manager (GParted) in Ubuntu Linux. download a free copy from ubuntu.com, make a disc out of it, and boot the live disc. hopefully u can see your partitions and the files in GParted. It is very reliable, but u cant write anything into the partition if it is HFS+ (Journaled), thats the only drawback.

 

Thanks alot. I'll try it and post back. Hope it works