Heres a good one guys. We had a power surge where I live and it blew through my protector and fried my hard drive. I could not boot in any mode and I kept getting an error at boot saying that it was dumping phisical memory. So because I did not want to lose all my info I switched my master to slave and vice versa, installed xp on my former slave but then I could not find my other disk drive even though it was founf in my disk management section. So I tried to put a drive letter on it so I could look at it and I partitioned it, I did not format it,i just partitioned it. Now it is empty, can I get this info back or is it gone for good.

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.........also next time you decide to create partitions within an unpartitioned space on a harddrive, windows will NOT be able to read from it until it is formatted just so you know.

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Deleting a partition is just as effective as formatting for destroying valuable data!

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