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akuseru   03-29-2009 at 09:59:42 PM

I just installed vista on my partitioned hard drive. The drive was previously formatted, so all vista had to do was install.
But some how, my data partition got deleted, too. I have no idea how, but now it's completely blank and unformatted.
is there any way to recover some or all of that data?
I'm finding soft ware that says it can get it back, but it has to format the drive first to access it. Wouldn't formatting it just make it less likely to be recovered? Or am I screwed either way?

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jivdis1x   03-29-2009 at 10:19:46 PM
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You made a mistake during the initiate installed. During the point when it ask which partition to use. There should be a list of partitions to use. There is no general purpose software to recover. In order to recover the lost data, the platter is physically scan. That involved taking the HD apart, and using a special equipment. Final answer-YES screwed.


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mike99   03-29-2009 at 11:02:28 PM
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Does Disk Manager show the two original partitions? If data was om 2nd partition, and that is still original size, you may be able to find recovery software, but you will only get one go, unless you clone the drive to a spare drive of same or larger size and work on the copy. Best solution is to use your backup to restore the data. If that not possible, Google 'backup solution' before doing major work on a hard drive in future.

Mike

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badnob   03-29-2009 at 11:12:15 PM
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You could see if you can recover the files or the whole partition (if indeed you deleted it). I have use a program called PC Inspector File Recovery which works well and is free.

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akuseru   03-29-2009 at 11:51:12 PM
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badnob wrote :

You could see if you can recover the files or the whole partition (if indeed you deleted it). I have use a program called PC Inspector File Recovery which works well and is free.



Well, it locates the partition, and it even shows how much was previously free on the drive, it doesn't show it as just blank space.
But I can't access it for some reason..
Because it's not formatted, maybe? Would formatting it ruin all change I have of getting the things back?
Sorry about the probably dumb questions, I don't get this program.

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