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Recover partition deleted with Windows XP Setup
I did something really stupid. I had a client whose hard drive went bad, and I connected an empty hard drive in its place. I then started from a Windows XP CD and the install CD gave me two choices as to which hard drive I wanted to install windows on. One was already unpartitioned and the other was partitioned as drive C:\. I didn't realize at the time that there was a second data hard drive in the machine and so I chose to delete the C:\ partition on the second drive. I went as far as pressing "L" to get it to take, but I didn't actually format it. Now setup sees two "unpartitioned" drives. Is there any way to reverse this since I didn't actually format it?
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Ranish Partition Manager is on the UltimateBootCD (UBCD4win - http://www.ultimatebootcd.
Try this software, it proved the recovery ability for me hundred times already: http://www.paragon-softwar
Download and install trial version. Ignore its warning as it will do what you need.
Then run it and if your drive is connected to PC as slave simply right click on free unallocated space and select Recover Lost Partitions. It will find and restore the partition in few seconds.
If the drive is still in its original PC then run Drive Backup 9.0 - tools - recovery media builder - create boot CD or USB flash drive.
Boot the PC with drive you need to recover from this CD and select Normal Mode - Drive Backup. There right click on empty space and select Undelete Partition. Again when NTFS partition is found use Undelete. It will restore it to the state it was before formatting.
First -- and most important: STOP !!
Do NOTHING on that system that might write to the drive.
Then buy yourself a copy of Active Partition Recovery: http://www.partition-recov
You can either use the Windows version or the bootable DOS version. If you want to use the Windows version, first disconnect the drive you messed up, install Windows on the new drive that you installed; then install Active Partition Recovery; shut down and reconnect the 2nd hard drive -- just run Active Partition Recovery to restore the partition on the 2nd drive.
Frankly speaking I think installing Windows then reconnecting the drive is a complicated way. Believe that Undelete features of both Drive Backup Recovery CD and Partition Recovery DOS version will do the trick.
In my view the Recovery CD of Drive Backup is easier to use for user who has less experience in such problems.
Jst connect both harddrives (Unpartitioned and partitioned) together. and make unpartitioned harddrive as master and other as slave then install windows xp in unpartitioned harddrive after making a partition carefully then download EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Pro & install it... run Easeus & select AdvancedRecovery & then select your Slave Harddrive from which you had deleted a partition and try to recover a deleted partition....
Ok, xso I swallowed my pride and paid for the Active Partition recovery software. I scanned, it picked up the drive, and I told t to recover. In the APR software itself I see all of the files. I assigned the driver letter E:\ to it. I also see it in the disk manager as the E: partition, but for some reason I don't have permissions to it. I'm the administrator on the computer, but this is a new XP system I'm installing. How do I fix this?
As noxcho noted, you simply need to "take ownership" of the drive. Here are the details (it works slightly different depending on whether you're using XP Home or XP Pro):
http://support.microsoft.c
"... I don't see the security tab ..." ==> You need to disable Simple File Sharing:
http://support.microsoft.c
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by: CaseybeaPosted on 2009-08-19 at 11:17:25ID: 25135632
Try downloading and running a partition manager, and set/mark the wrecked partition as "active". I have had great success with RANISH PARTITION MANAGER (free)