Oh dear! I've partitioned my backup hard drive; is all lost?

[kareem]

Well folks,

I was in the process of installing windows XP Pro onto my system which has two hard drives - C and D with C being the primary, OS drive. D was just my alternate drive which stored all of my personal files. In the installation, I accidentally selected the D drive as the drive to partition. Well, it was partitioned but it wasn't formatted. Does this still mean that all my files are gone forever? Can I take it somewhere to get all of the files?

Does partitioning mean that all the files are deleted or killed? Can I use software to recover the files?

I have 5 Gigs worth of data files I really need.

Well, your prayers are appreciated too.

Kareem

[G]

Well it doesn’t look good but it may be worth you trying DiskPatch (pre-Windows) and/or iRecover (Windows) at the link below.

http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/

G

[rmanet]

This list from another forum......

File Rescue 2.5

Web:http://www.file-rescue.com/

GetDataBack

http://www.runtime.org/

For NTFS

http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm

Fast File Undelete

http://www.dtidata.com/

Undelete

http://www.quantumsoft.co.uk/undelete.stm

File Recover 2000

http://www.filerecover.com/

R-Tools

http://www.r-tt.com/


File Restore

If you've deleted your data and you want to get it back, you need FileRestore.

FileRestore is a simple, easy-to-use tool for recovering files that have been lost or deleted from your

Windows system.

Designed for Windows XP, 2000, NT, Me, and 9x

http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/filerestore.asp

Disk Commander

In virtually any situation where you need to recover lost data from a Windows system, Disk Commander

is the solution. Disk Commander performs a wide range of data recovery operations.

http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/diskcommander.asp


Drive Rescue

Supported file systems: FAT 12/16/32

Windows® 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP

Free

http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/rescue/index.html


Tool to check and undelete partition

Works with the following partitions:

- FAT12 FAT16 FAT32

- Linux

- Linux SWAP (version 1 and 2)

- NTFS (Windows NT)

- BeFS (BeOS)

- UFS (BSD)

- Netware

- RaiserFS

http://www.cgsecurity.org//testdisk.html


DFSee

http://www.fsys.demon.nl/

MRECOVER

http://kristenonline.com/lain/cih/mrecintro.htm

Emergency Undelete

http://www.c2000.com/software/download.htm


Unerase

http://www.filesearching.com/cgi-bin/s?q=unerase.exe&t=f&d=&l=en&x=11&y=17

[Peter M]

A shining example for why one backup set is no backup set.
Next time you want security, you'll want at least three backup sets on independent media.

[BipolarBill]

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

Free.

[Midknyte]

To supplement Peter's comment, you should also have one of the backup sets offsite. In case there is a fire, flood, or some other catastrophe, you should still have your data. Now if a nuclear missile hits your town, offsite wouldn't help. Of course, you would probably have other things on your mind.

[AllGamer]

that is if you still have a head ;)

[user0209]

all that trouble for some porn????

:p