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More info?)
Do a Google for "disk recovery" and "partition recovery" and
you should get some hits. I highly suggest that you contact
Drive Savers since they are the professional experts on this
sort of thing. They have some free FAQ and will give some
free advice by email/phone to see whether you are are
candidate for their service or if self-help will fix your
problem.
http://www.drivesavers.com/
http://www.drivesavers.com/recovery_tips/index.html
http://www.drivesavers.com/disaster_recovery/index.html
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US: 800.440.1904
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"Mr. Kidd" <MrKidd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
news:35902A2D-5660-4D92-822B-26661DF0A361@microsoft.com...
| The installation did NOT complete because this was not the
disk I was
| installing Windows XP on. This disk was only setup as a
slave drive but I
| mistankenly selected and deleted it's partition, but I
immediatly removed the
| drive from the computer, so nothing has been further
written to it, so
| physically the data should still be there.
|
| Help me please
|
| "Jim Macklin" wrote:
|
| > I suggest that you contact www.drivesavers.com for help,
it
| > may cost a bundle, but they can recover just about
anything.
| > I suggest that you remove the hard drive (at least
remove
| > the cables) so no further read/writes will be done on
the
| > drive.
| >
| > Did the XP Pro installation complete? It is possible
that
| > the installation over-wrote some or all of the deleted
| > partition, however the data may still be recoverable at
a
| > price.
| >
| > There are undelete programs that can recover a
partition,
| > but I'm not sure if they will work after the XP install
| > completed.
| >
| >
| > --
| > The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
| > But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
| >
| >
| > "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in
| > message news:OaB5S%23TBFHA.2156@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
| > | Sorry! When you delete a partition, you irreversibly
| > delete all
| > | files and data that was on that partition. Did you
not
| > perform
| > | a file backup prior to installing Windows XP?
| > |
| > | Perhaps the following third-party program will help:
| > |
| > | Active@ Partition Recovery
| > | http://www.partition-recovery.com/
| > |
| > | Download USER MANUAL in PDF format
| > |
http://www.partition-recovery.com/manual.htm
| > |
| > | --
| > | Carey Frisch
| > | Microsoft MVP
| > | Windows XP - Shell/User
| > |
| > | Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
| > |
| >
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx
| > |
| >
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| > |
| > | "Mr. Kidd" wrote:
| > |
| > || I inadvertently deleted a partition during a Windows
XP
| > Pro installation.
| > || The disk in mention was setup as a slave drive, but
it
| > contained very
| > || important data of which I don't have a backup. To
make
| > things worse, this
| > || is not my computer we are talking about, it is my
boss'
| > computer.
| > ||
| > || How can I recover??? I haven't written anything to
the
| > disk since deleting
| > || the partition....
| > ||
| > || Help Please.
| >
| >
| >
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