Re: C:\ drive GONE!

From: Cari \(MS-MVP\) (Newsgroups1_at_coribright.com)
Date: 08/17/04


Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:26:08 -0700

You can google for Data Recovery Services... there are plenty of companies
out there who can retrieve your data... but probably at a high price. Last
time I was quoted (way back before XP was released, so over four years ago)
it was around $1500 for an 8.4gb hard drive.

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Cari ((MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com
<jangori1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:080601c483e9$b45933e0$7d02280a@phx.gbl...
> I had my XP working fine until I tried to install linux
> (Red Hat 8.0) AGAIN on my 40GB HD and do a dual boot. For
> some reason it didnt work. I HAD THIS WORKING BEFORE.
> Maybe I did something wrong with Partioning! When
> reinstalling my XP, I only had E:\ drive and a lot of
> unused partitions. I decided to install XP on E:\. On
> boot I cant find my C:\drive. Partition magic revealed
> the following:
> /boot(*.) Linux Ext3 101.9 89.6(unused) non active
> Local Disk (E:) NTFS 39,095 37,6142 (Active)
> (*)              unallocated 7.8
>
> I had backed up important data on my C:\. Is there anyway
> I could get my data back? Please assist