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    Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    I have a 500gb hd, partitioned into C,D,E,F drives.

    Been running XP on C: drive, & win7 on D: drive, with no problems.
    That was till yesterday when I decided to do a fresh install of XP on the same C drive.

    Now in Disk Management, its only showing C: drive (127gb healthy) & one 338gb drive (Unallocated).

    Can anybody help me get my D,E & F drives back?,
    they're the ones with my family photos & impotent documents on.

    Hope somebody can help?

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    Re: Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    Quote Originally Posted by Pigbristle View Post

    Can anybody help me get my D,E & F drives back?,
    they're the ones with my family photos & impotent documents on.

    Hope somebody can help?
    No wonder the wife is so angry.

    Anyways, have you tried Fixboot from the recovery console?

    Otherwise try a Linux live CD and see if you can copy the important stuff that way?
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    Re: Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    Ha-Ha ipotent, important, doesn't really matter, because when the misses finds out. I'm a dead man.


    Can you recommend anywhere to download Fixboot?
    And what is the recovery console?

    You can forget Linux, I nothing about it (

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    Re: Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    sounds like you have formatted the whole disk....

    fixboot has nothing to do with non system partitions, if you can boot fine dont use it.

    fixboot is a command from the xp cd recovery console, dw about it.

    download a trial of some parition software, see what that says... i.e acronis disk director suite.

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    http://www.data-recovery-software.net/

    * Deleted without Recycle Bin, or when Recycle Bin has been emptied;
    * Removed by virus attack or power failure;
    * After the partition with the files was reformatted, even for different file system;
    * When the partition structure on a hard disk was changed or damaged. In this case, R-Studio utilities can scan the hard disk trying to find previously existed partitions and recover files from found partitions.
    * From hard disk with bad sectors. R-Studio Data Recovery Software can first copy the entire disk or its part into an image file and then process such image file. This is especially useful when new bad sectors are constantly appearing on the hard disk, and remaining information must be immediately saved.

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    Re: Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    I'm pretty sure I didn't format the whole disc.

    I'm trying some recovery software now, will let you know if it works.


    Someone else told me to re-insert win 7 disk & see if a repair option is there.
    What do you guys think! would this work?

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    Re: Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    well, you cant have formatted the whole disk as you have unallocated space. Maybe you deleted the partition data when you did the fresh install?

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    Re: Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    OK, thanks guys for the help.
    Running some data recovery software now.

    Will let you know how I went on. (fingers crossed ;o)

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    Re: Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    Seems like you put in a really old Windows XP (Pre-SP1) CD that didn't support >127GB harddrive and hence it didn't see any partition (since they go past 127GB) when you installed it.

    So it formatted your "blank" disk to 127GB for you. Then when you installed all updates the >127GB support came back, and now the extra space is visible.

    If you google it you'll see a lot of the same problems.
    Depends on how was your original partition, very likely your F: is intact, probably E: too.
    You probably don't have anything important on D: since its a beta, and you planned to format C: anyway.

    Just don't try any thing risky and you'll get your data back relatively easy.
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    Re: Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    Long shot, but have you tried just going into Administrative Tools to see if the drive isn't showing up?

    My old C: drive didn't appear after in installed 7 - had a bit of a panic, but they were still there - just not assigned drive letters.

    EDIT: Bummer, that *is* disk management isn't it.. I'm not sure if you can do it with GParted though?

    http://gparted.sourceforge.net Have a look at that too.

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    Re: Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    Do you remember how the original partitions were created? I'm not sure they're preserved if they were created as volumes from within Windows (rather than normal partitions) and you wipe the original OS installation.

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    Re: Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    Just a bit of an update:
    Booted from win7 disk & tried repairing, but no joy, it could only see the two partitions that XP sees.
    The only difference now is that in Disk management the drive that was showing unallocated is now showing as E: Healthy?
    I think my best bet is the Data Recovery software now.
    Going to give it another go tomorrow, got to get some sleep.
    goodnight all!

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    Re: Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    Quote Originally Posted by smargh View Post
    i second this, i've used this MANY times with high success rate, it can restore the partition and it can copy files off the recovered partition.

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    Re: Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    Hopefully you can get your stuff back, and once you're all back on an even keel I *strongly* recommend that you implement some sort of backup regime - what would you have done if the disk had failed? As a mechanical device it's not a matter a matter of *if* but *when* this happens.

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    Re: Help!!! before the wife kills me.

    To all those who helped, I did get my files back.

    Ended up using "Power Data Recovery prov4.1.1" great program I would recommend it to anybody.

    Thanks everyone

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