Re: Lost file after transfer to new hard disk

From: yuri (j_at_j.j)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:41:13 +0100

The problem was that i was copying the whole partition (30Gb) and the
importance of data was mixed. But now that u mentioned it, i'll put the
important stuff away from music, video, etc. thanks

I had a look for partition recovery, but all of show that the disk is empty.
but I definetly saw (and opened) the copied files before rebooting. A bit
weird...

> If you value your data, you never "move" it. You copy the data. Then when
> you are satisfied that the copy was successful, delete it from the old
> location.
>
> To try to save the data you will need a file recovery program. Search in
> Google - there are quite a few.
>
> --
> Regards:
>
> Richard Urban
>
> aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
>
>
> "yuri" <j@j.j> wrote in message
> news:%23FnVtwCbEHA.3420@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >I lost all info on a new drive.
> >
> > Hard disks:
> > Old: 40Gb IBM 60GXP
> > New: 120Gb Samsung SpinPoint
> >
> > That's what happened:
> > Installed the samsung as primary slave, windows boot, detect and
install.
> > (didn't asked to restart, so i didn't)
> > Opened "manage computer", partitionned and formatted the drive. (Got the
> > nice bars displaying the partitions)
> > Select one of the partitions and assigned a drive letter.
> > Then MOVED!!!! (Grrr) my files from the IBM to the samsung. (why move?
cuz
> > if an error occured, i won't have to look for duplicates)
> > It took almost an hour.
> > Shut down windows, removed the IBM and put the samsung as primary
master.
> > Boot, put winXp install cd.
> > At partition select in windows installation, it said "no partitions".
> > Turn off, put back IBM as master, and samsung as slave.
> > Boot to windows, no partitions on samsung
> > what happened????? Y??????
> >
> > 30Gb of documents, music and video lost (hopefully you guys will help me
> > recover)
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > |2Gb FAT32 | 5Gb NTFS | 100Gb NTFS|
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> >
>
>

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