Hey guys, I am in a big jam. I have a 2TB Seagate HDD which has failed partially. I only kept it for dumping data, hence only had 2 partitions among which I kept a 20GB partition to install OS for emergency purposes only. Now the main partition which is about 1.7-1.8TB in size is not accessible :scared14:........The data is still intact but I m unable to access it.......so need to Make a mirror image of the drive with a good Data Recovery Software. But I never had to recover so much important data before so I am a bit nervous. Also there is a problem, I don't have a 2TB Backup HDD to store the Drive Image. I only have a 1TB HDD. Is there a Recovery Software which can make the mirror image successfully and then compress the image to it in a 1TB HDD(after backup I'll Format th 2TB Drv & Restore the image to its full size) or do I really have to buy another 2TB HDD now?? I have selected 2 good softwares for this,viz; R-Studio Windows & Steller Phoenix. Really need the help of experts here as I am not sure which way to go for such huge load of recovery data. Please let me know what you think asap.