SebastianAguilera
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Recovering files From Hard drive
Ok my situation is a bit complicated so please bare with me.
I have a drive (Let's call it drive "X") that had Win XP Pro SP2 but the install got corrupted and I tried the Repair feature using the Windows Install CD but that failed. My goal is to recover some photos and documents that are still on the drive. I have verified that the drive itsels is physicaly fine.
I have installed a fresh copy of Win Xp on another drive (Lets' call this one drive "Y") that I had access to. I then connected drive X as slave to my secondary IDE controller. under Windwos Disk Management I then intialized the drive as it shows in this pic:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/images/xp_manual2.gif
The drive still showed up as "unallocated" so I chose to create a new Partition like this:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/images/xp_partition1.gif
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/images/xp_partition2.gif
Except that I chose "Do not format this this partition"
Now when I go to My computer, the drive shows up but it says that it is not formatted.
Please tell me that I didn't lose all of my data........
Any ideas on how to recover my files??
Thanks Guys!
Seb
I have a drive (Let's call it drive "X") that had Win XP Pro SP2 but the install got corrupted and I tried the Repair feature using the Windows Install CD but that failed. My goal is to recover some photos and documents that are still on the drive. I have verified that the drive itsels is physicaly fine.
I have installed a fresh copy of Win Xp on another drive (Lets' call this one drive "Y") that I had access to. I then connected drive X as slave to my secondary IDE controller. under Windwos Disk Management I then intialized the drive as it shows in this pic:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/images/xp_manual2.gif
The drive still showed up as "unallocated" so I chose to create a new Partition like this:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/images/xp_partition1.gif
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/images/xp_partition2.gif
Except that I chose "Do not format this this partition"
Now when I go to My computer, the drive shows up but it says that it is not formatted.
Please tell me that I didn't lose all of my data........
Any ideas on how to recover my files??
Thanks Guys!
Seb
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Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!
I used all of the apps recommended and the best one in my opinon was GetDataBack. Worked like a charm. First you need to scan the drive. My drive was 80GB and it took about 90 minutes to scan . You then get a folder list with all tye files on the drive and they all retain their original filenames and folder structure which is ecellent! You then have to recover or extract the files onto another drive which for 50 GB of info took about another hour. I did not lose a single file!!
One thinkg that was a bit disconcerting was the fact that I found all kinds of file and programs taht i deleted over a year ago. Pretty scary.....
Anyways thanks dudes. EE Rocks!.
Seb
I used all of the apps recommended and the best one in my opinon was GetDataBack. Worked like a charm. First you need to scan the drive. My drive was 80GB and it took about 90 minutes to scan . You then get a folder list with all tye files on the drive and they all retain their original filenames and folder structure which is ecellent! You then have to recover or extract the files onto another drive which for 50 GB of info took about another hour. I did not lose a single file!!
One thinkg that was a bit disconcerting was the fact that I found all kinds of file and programs taht i deleted over a year ago. Pretty scary.....
Anyways thanks dudes. EE Rocks!.
Seb
your welcome.
Glad to hear that you recovered your data. (=
You could install Windows over that disk, without formatting, and everything would be safe. The new Windows installation would exist along with the old one, so you could recover everything. But as you initialized it and created a new partition... well... do you have any backup of your files... I suppose not...
You asked not to tell you've lose all your data. OK, I will not tell...
You have nothing to lose, now... If you don't have better hints than mine, I suggest you to install Windows over it again, saying not to format or erase whatever. Just create a second Windows installation... If you don't have any better hint...
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