You won't believe this!?!

actually, the title of the post was completely misleading. Since this is the other section, I thought I should be able to get away with a little journalistic freedom...

Anyway, does anyone know how to recover data off of a hard drive who's partition information was just lost? Windows somehow doesnt know this guy has a partition on it, so I re-created it, but I dont have access to the data until I format it.... should I format it and then try to access teh data using programs?

Thanks..

Old addage: "Users never prosper" ) Long live the tweakers

well I reformatted it, and now Im using some tools to start recovering formatting it was neccessary

Old addage: "Users never prosper" ) Long live the tweakers

low level is a way to completely remove ALL data that may be hiding on your hard drive following a conventional format and/or repartition
<A HREF="http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/low_level_ata.html " target="_new">http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/low_level_ata.html </A>
That gives a basic definition of the process


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Wherever you go, there you are.

No need to do that you wuss, you only need to do a low level format if your trying to hide something-it writes 0's thought the whole drive.

Suicide is painless...........

If you've got an old dos 6.22 floppy you can use fdisk /mbr (I think) to try and recover

Hmmmm... Donuts