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Hi, I Formatted the wrong Hard Drive when I was installing Win XP from ME and now all my files and photos have gone, is there any way of getting some of these back??? Any help would be greatly appreciated...
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I've done that before but it was for a high management person!!! I managed to get all the data back using a program called lost and found.
You'll probably have to buy a data recovery tool.
Try doing a search in google for free data recovery tools or something like that.
Hope this helps
Rory.
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As Rory says, you should be able to recover most of your data with a Data Recovery tool. Formating just resets the indexes, doesn't actually remove the data.
In the meantime, don't do anything else with the drive till you get the data recovery software, not even a different partition on the same drive.
Stuart
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Thanks for the info, I dont have anything on the drive that I formatted cause that was my spare drive, any suggestions on what the best is to use???
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sirbigb1, I think I'm confused.
First you wrote I Formatted the wrong Hard Drive when I was installing Win XP from ME and now all my files and photos have gone, is there any way of getting some of these back.
Then you just mentioned I dont have anything on the drive that I formatted cause that was my spare drive
Which is what?
i_XpUser
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Not as confused as I am, you see when I started I was using Win ME on my C:Drive....
and I had a D:Drive with photos on it nothing else.
So I then decided to get rid of Win ME and instal Win XP.
In the process of Formatting I formatted the D: Drive by mistake,
so then after finding out how stupid I was I then Formatted the C:Drive and installed Win XP on it,
So now my computer is up and running Windows XP on the C:Drive and on my Spare Drive D I have nothing
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He accidently formatted his secondary drive and needs to retrieve the information on it after the formatting was done.
Very simple to understand...lol
Felipe Dominguez
Network Analyst
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I have a software called Bad Copy pro.
If you want. send me an email and Ill zip it up and send it to you.
I use it for floppy disks it has a section for hard drives but I havent used it since my secondary drive is on a RAID.Felipe Dominguez
Network Analyst
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Felipe, I appreciate that I have sent you an e:mail and I will let you know when I get it and try it out Thanks for your help and everybody else...
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There is range of useful utils for this situation - "out there".
A trawl via google for "data-recovery", or "unformat a partition" or some "similar" search string will bring up a range of them.
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Why is this such a big problem? Can't you simply restore the lost data from your backup? You do have a backup don't you?
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I used Get Data Back from runtime.org and it worked for me. However I had not formatted so I don't know how it would work in your case.
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Yup - I have a prggy called "restore delete" - which of course would be better for you if it was called "restore accidental format" but there may be a useful tool you can simply install in your Xp system and use to recover your D drive files.
Good luck
Greaner
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