saving data on large drives

tweaker · 12-09-2007, 06:26 PM

I recently bought a 320gb drive and am running on XP SP2. I saved all my data on an extended partition that I assumed would still be there if the primary partition was formatted. Today I did a fresh re-install of XP and noticed the extended partition is no longer being recognized. I just installed SP2 and it still does not recognize the original extended partition, and sees it as unallocated space in Disk Manager. Did I lose all my data? Is there anyway to recover it?

**Deleted090308** · 12-09-2007, 08:44 PM

I have posted a reply in your thread in XP support.
did I lose all my data???

tweaker · 12-09-2007, 09:51 PM

thanks. But I tried that and it wasn't able to recover any lost partitions.

12-09-2007, 06:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
tweaker Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 7 OS: xp	saving data on large drives I recently bought a 320gb drive and am running on XP SP2. I saved all my data on an extended partition that I assumed would still be there if the primary partition was formatted. Today I did a fresh re-install of XP and noticed the extended partition is no longer being recognized. I just installed SP2 and it still does not recognize the original extended partition, and sees it as unallocated space in Disk Manager. Did I lose all my data? Is there anyway to recover it?

12-09-2007, 08:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: saving data on large drives I have posted a reply in your thread in XP support. did I lose all my data???

12-09-2007, 09:51 PM	#3 (permalink)
tweaker Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 7 OS: xp	Re: saving data on large drives thanks. But I tried that and it wasn't able to recover any lost partitions.