Help! Bad hard drive - lost all data
I have a 300GB hdd which I had my main installation on, and all of my data - My Pictures, My Music, etc.
I was having some trouble with games, and had tried everything, so I was about to see if I could do a repair install over the top of the original windows to fix that problem.
The first time I installed I had to expand the partition to 300GB from the 130GB after installation because it's not an SP2 disk. So when I used my non-SP2 XP disk to do the reinstall, the partition came up as Unformatted and only 130GB again. It asked me to format.
I didn't want to do that so I exited out. However it would appear the damage was done. Now the drive appears as a 300GB drive, but unformatted. My winxp installation no longer detected/booted, I had to install on my second disk. I tried the disk in my 2nd PC which has Partition Magic, and the disk partition came up as BAD. :Oops:
Is there any way to get all my stuff off the drive? I have some backed up, but not all...
Would really appreciate some help here.