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tweaker · 12-09-2007, 06:31 PM

I purchased a 320gb HD a couple months ago. Little did I know that XP doesn't support large drives over 127gb unless with SP2. So I installed that, and I saved all my data on the extended partition. Just today I had to completely format my primary partition, and didn't think it would be a problem assuming all my data would still be on the extended partition. I just completed a fresh XP install (on SP1) and don't see the extended partition. I didn't really think about this until after I completed the install. I'm download SP2 right now. The question is, did I lose all my data that was on the extended partition? If so, is there a way to recover it? I only formatted the primary partition in the windows blue install screen, because the extended didn't show up.

12-09-2007, 06:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
tweaker Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 7 OS: xp	did I lose all my data??? I purchased a 320gb HD a couple months ago. Little did I know that XP doesn't support large drives over 127gb unless with SP2. So I installed that, and I saved all my data on the extended partition. Just today I had to completely format my primary partition, and didn't think it would be a problem assuming all my data would still be on the extended partition. I just completed a fresh XP install (on SP1) and don't see the extended partition. I didn't really think about this until after I completed the install. I'm download SP2 right now. The question is, did I lose all my data that was on the extended partition? If so, is there a way to recover it? I only formatted the primary partition in the windows blue install screen, because the extended didn't show up.