Re: recover partition(s) deleted during window xp pro resintall

From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:26:00 -0500

Hi,

Mbrwork from www.terabyteunlimited.com may be able to help you recover the
partitions that were deleted. It's in the freeware download section. You run
it from a bootable floppy. 

-- 
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
<foggy_sun@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:1106301116.059536.192600@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> This got to be the biggest ball I dropped ever - during a recent
> restall of window xp pro at home, I lost sight that the external USB
> hard drive (Maxter one tough 120GB) was still plugged in, and managed
> to delete the sole partition on it, along with the sole partition on
> the internal EIDE (or IDE) drive. And of course, a second later, I
> realized what I have done and quit the windows set up withOUT
> reformatting. I have not tried fdisk either.
>
> Can anyone help me recover the files on EITHER drive?
> Thank you sooo much!
>
> - Foggy
>

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