Formatted root and also lost D HELP

[hannahsh]

Just rebuilt my computer, been done numerous times before, and for some reason my d:drive now also is lost and wants formatting.

Is there anyway to recover the files on there?

 

[soaplover]

There is free utilities on this .
This is a iso image that has to be downloaded and burned to cd.
Boot the pc with it and there is a collection of utilities here ,including file rescue from "dead" partition.

Try it out.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

//Regards Soaplover

 

[hannahsh]

Bad link!

 

[bcastner]

Maybe...
TestDisk might recover your partition.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/

 

[wolluf]

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

 

[hannahsh]

Its a 120Gb Maxtor and testdisk cant diagnose it. C and E drives are fine, typical Root and old installed games, BUT D was where I stored my copy of e-mail.pst, old documents and well I dare not think whats on there.

Damn XP, generally its bulletproof, but this I can do without

 

[soaplover]

Sorry typo in cut/paste operation.
The util that Bill referes to is on the iso from

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

along with much other stuff.

//Regards Soaplover

 

[hannahsh]

Cheers Soaplover, that works, thanks to ADSL will have it in under 9 mins so will try it. FIngers crossed.

Norton used to have a great tool for this years ago, but I lost touch messing like this, it hasnt happened to me for years

 

[soaplover]

Good luck keep us posted...

//Regards Soaplover

 

[hannahsh]

hahah

Well it now knows its NTFS but root was destroyed, so reinstalling XP as I write. I only lost 2 hours of I do this again, not the 100's of hours of work on my D:drive.

thankfully its a P4/2.4 system so shouldnt take too long to see whats what.

ps That disk is both usefull and dangerous, way too easy to make a mistake, could go with a posh windows style gui that keeps asking you if you REALLY want to do something, smart guys these programmers.

 

[soaplover]

So i guess your files in "D" is intact .
Good work

//Regards Soaplover

 

[hannahsh]

oh well its copied the new install onto the Drive and thats it, so I guess I lost it. WIll run testdrive through it later but not now.

Need to have a play with the CD on another computer that I can do no damage on

Cheers
all the same Stewart

 

[soaplover]

To bad , if you copy new files on an existing partition meny files get lost . But you should be able to recover files from unused sectors .


//Regards Soaplover

 

[bcastner]

I think the issue is that if you lose the partition that is one thing. You lose the "root" as described here, I think you are toast.

 

[soaplover]

Good to see you are still with us bill ,i don't know exactly what Stewart did .
But my recommandation to cissy use volume names on all drives prevents you installing on wrong partition as drive letters are fixed later .
Best pracsis is to assign vol names that would show up in a windows reinstallation on the "install to partition" screen . Then you see exactly where it goes.

//Regards Soaplover