Is it Gone?

Psykoh

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Hey all,
I just built my friend a new system (CPU, mobo, RAM, HDD, and all), however she wanted to recover some of her old files from her old hard drive. I soon found out that some window files were corrupt on her old harddrive. So then i decided to put her old harddrive as a slave in her new system and have it as a dual HDD thing, with her windows XP running off her new WD 40gig (yup only 40Gigs, thats all she wanted). Well the system recognized both HDD, slave and master appropriately, however when i logged in to windows and tried to open up her old HD to start copying files, windows said that that drive was unformatted and asked if i wanted to format it. I clicked no and restarted the system. Upon restarting, XP went to that light blue screen doing a disk check on the old hard drive, it ran for like 3 mins, and the final outcome stated that there wasnt enough disk space to save the loss data.
My question is, is all her old data gone, or can i still salvage it somehow?
 

lhgpoobaa

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hmmm. Its allways possible the old drive has tossed the sads...

Try accessing the drive under command prompt bootup.

Failing that, download the diagnostic tools from the drive manufacturers website and check the drive out.

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