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Hey,

okay my comp was getting slow so on the spur of the moment i deceided to format it... I aslso deleted the partition... and than put a new one on....

so i have 2 40's (ide) and i took all my valuables and moved them onto another my secondary 40...(oh and I had a 2 gig file with my friends stuff i was supposed to hold for him.. i don't even know what it is..he asked me not to go into it.. so i didn't)

now what i did was i turned my comp off and unplaugged my bottom HD and turned it back on and began to format.. than once it was all done and win98 was installed i thought to myslef? what if the bottom one was primary?(usually i put the bottom as 2ndary) so now i still have my XP and and 98 on my other HD !!!!!! and i'm left with nothing !

I was soo remedel that i didn't copy/paste to the other HD.. rather i just moved it.. so its not backed up ither!


(i prolly left some info. out but this is a fast post up)I know i have heard peeps on here talking about recovering stuff off of HD's....

And i will pay the shipping to the person who will do this and the shipping back to me... and extra $$$ for the labour!

I'm still in shock.. this just happened.. 5 min ago..

ALL HELP IS APPRECIATED !!!!

(i prolly left some info. out but this is a fast post up)

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jordan kuz

Hell,
gimme a PM and i'll phone ya to work out a deal...

All is not lost.

Contact me on AIM or through email and I can get ya hooked up and whatnot.

Originally posted by Busby
Contact me on AIM .

Okay, I installed it and added you

thx

anyone got any suggestions?
busby help out quite a bit...
but still.. any ideas?
lol throw any theory out here i'll try it

i did the exact same thing about 4 years ago...the drive letters were different in DOS than in windows...and i blew away my backup partition and also formatted it.

i used the recovery app from Final Data and it got back everything fairly quickly...and even data i had deleted months/years before that...it was actually an eye-opener with how easy it was to get data off a drive (as in when selling used drives to people, etc...gotta be careful)

http://www.finaldata.us/products/products_overview.php

Sweet... i am dling it right now... i'll test it out in the am (dial up)
I was thinking.. if we can get peeps to post thier ideas and programs they use to recover data in here.. it might be worth a sticky

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Jordan

It would be wise to ghost the hdd in question byte by byte to another drive to attempt the data recovery from there ... trying some recovery apps you never used directly on the drive in question could destroy all the data that might be salvagable.

Winternals Disk Commander has recovered an entire HDD after it was formatted. Will evern recover files from a partition that's so badly corrupt that it shows up as a non-Dos partition. Great app.

alrighty i am running it now.. let ya guys know what happens

Fair warning: it can take several hours, or even a couple of DAYS to restore the files.

hm.. i must be doing this wrong? it took 10 min? .. and didn't recover anything but the OS on there now?!?
lol ya got any walkthroughs? that might help?

Ack - come to think of it Disk Commander is only for recovering data from damaged partititions. Not sure if it will recover data that's formatted over (go to their website and read their FAQ to find out).

I haven't had to recover data from a formatted drive in a while and I think I used something else. Can't remember right now.

See what it says in the FAQ. There may be a way to sell it to recover old partition data and ignore the new one.

Winternals does have a program to restore your files.

http://www.winternals.com/products/repa ... asp?pid=fr

Disk Commander will also recover deleted files according to http://www.winternals.com/products/repa ... ap#diskcom

Jordan: Check your email.

j/w but what was just lost that you cant d/l or install again

me