Hard Drive Problems

genusone · 07-24-2008, 01:03 AM

Hi All,

Recently i thought that my PC was getting a bit slow so thought i would completely reinstall windows and start a fresh, but i did not want to do this on the HD that windows was running off at the moment, as i have lots of valuble data on there. So i thought i would use my secondary 500GB SATA HD instead, also with a lot of valuble things on there ie. music, films etc.

So what i did was to disconnect my main 80GB IDE HD that windows was running off and make the SATA drive my main one. So i booted up off my windows XP disk and started to go through to setup process, it came to a section where it talks about partitions and the setup wanted to format my drive, upon reading this i stopped the setup, as i did not want to lose my data. I put my PC back to its original state and loaded up XP as usual to find that my secondary HD does not have a name like before and when i double click on it, it says: this drive is not formatted, do i want to format it now.

So i was just wondering if there is any way of retrieving the data i had on it before, as i did not think installing windows would have lost me this data

I did try a file recovery program, but this did not work!

Your help on this would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Houndog777 · 07-24-2008, 01:09 PM

http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file...htm?language=1

~~wiseleo~~ · 07-24-2008, 02:40 PM

This thread is duplicate of your thread here: hard drive file recovery

You were given explicit instructions.

07-24-2008, 01:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
genusone Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 25 OS: xp proffesional	Hard Drive Problems Hi All, Recently i thought that my PC was getting a bit slow so thought i would completely reinstall windows and start a fresh, but i did not want to do this on the HD that windows was running off at the moment, as i have lots of valuble data on there. So i thought i would use my secondary 500GB SATA HD instead, also with a lot of valuble things on there ie. music, films etc. So what i did was to disconnect my main 80GB IDE HD that windows was running off and make the SATA drive my main one. So i booted up off my windows XP disk and started to go through to setup process, it came to a section where it talks about partitions and the setup wanted to format my drive, upon reading this i stopped the setup, as i did not want to lose my data. I put my PC back to its original state and loaded up XP as usual to find that my secondary HD does not have a name like before and when i double click on it, it says: this drive is not formatted, do i want to format it now. So i was just wondering if there is any way of retrieving the data i had on it before, as i did not think installing windows would have lost me this data I did try a file recovery program, but this did not work! Your help on this would be greatly appreciated Thanks

07-24-2008, 01:09 PM	#2 (permalink)
Houndog777 Tech Hardware TEam Join Date: May 2007 Location: Scotland, UK Posts: 2,686 OS: XPpro sp3 My System	Re: Hard Drive Problems http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file...htm?language=1 __________________

07-24-2008, 02:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
~~wiseleo~~ Troubled Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 461 OS: Win 2003 SP2 My System	Re: Hard Drive Problems This thread is duplicate of your thread here: hard drive file recovery You were given explicit instructions.