Re: HARD DRIVE LOST DATA

What you and others call a drive is actually a partition. As Vanguard
points out, you formatted the partition--not the hard drive. What's
important is whether or not you installed XP on the newly formatted
partition. Some recovery programs can recover files from a formatted
partition--they cannot recover files that have been overwritten by others
files. The recovery software I recommended will recover files from a
formatted partition--not all programs can do that.

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP 1997 - 2007


"Anton Jansen" <AntonJansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Ron, I'm not sure I understand your question. I formatted the drive, I
don't know what a 'partition' is. I did not create partitions if that's
what
you are asking.

"Ron Badour" wrote:

Do I understand you correctly, you formatted the partition and then
installed XP on it? If so, data recovery will not be possible where the
XP
files now exist since they would have overwritten the previous data.
However, if there are files that were not overwritten by XP, you should
be
able to recover them with Data Recovery Wizard Pro:
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/
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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP 1997 - 2007


"Anton Jansen" <AntonJansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have just reinstalled WindowsXP because I felt evrything was running
slowly
and to many errors were occuring. I upgraded to 2x2.4Mhz=4.8 CPU and
the
machine is now lightning fast. I have three hard drives and when I did
a
format, I accidently formatted the wrong drive. I now have c:=160Ghz
f:=300Ghz and g:=400Ghz. The c: and f: drives are OK but because g: was
reformatted and XP installed on it, I had to remove it from my system
because
at startup the system would boot from G: I can however use g: via USB.
There
are very important video files on this g: drive which were lost with
reformat. I have tried 3 different recovery programs but for for some
reason
the recovery programs only show the existing files and numerous old
deleted
files. Is there anyone who can recommend a program or way to recover
these
lost .avi and .mpg video files.





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