Re: Lost documents
From: D.Currie (dmbcurrie.nospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/14/04
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:10:39 -0600
"Mattis" <streamster@spray.se> wrote in message
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> Yesterday I reformatted and put everything important on
> the D: drive. After the Windows installation the computer
> suddenly began to check inconsequence on drive D:. after
> it finished everything was gone on the drive. How do I
> get it back? What's the poin of adding a function that,
> without telling what it's doing deletes everything on a
> drive that's not even needed for booting? Help me!
>
> /Mattis
After the fact, it's hard to say why the disk seemed to be bad after the
install. I've seen that sort of thing when an old version of partitioning
software was used on the old drive, or when some sort of drive overlay way
used. So when XP boots up the drive looks wrong and it fixes it.
Or there could have been some problem with the copied data.
It doesn't help now, but what I do, if I get the message, is tell it NOT to
check the disk until I've gotten whatever data I need off of it. Actually, I
have other methods for saving data, but if I had no other choice, I wouldn't
let any drive utility make changes to a drive unless I had the data
elsewhere first.
There are data recovery programs that might help, and there are data
recovery companies that would probably be able to get the data back. Both
are likely to be a little bit expensive, so it depends on what that data is
worth. There are also some free data recovery programs. It's hit-and-miss
whether they'll do you any good, and could be a lot of wasted time.
Another thing to consider is that it's not a good idea to trust any one hard
drive for storage of important data. Backing up to CDs is a good idea, or
keeping an extra drive available for a duplicate it good. You never know
when a drive might get corrupted, and if you've only got one copy, you risk
losing everything.
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