Re: Recovering data from a large SATA after XP reinstall

"*** Cardy" <ubetrap@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Kirk Dudley" <kdudley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Here's my problem:
>> I had prety much managed to kill XP, and needed to wipe and reinstall. I
> got
>> a 400GB WD SATA drive, plugged it in with no problem, and backed up all
>> of
>> my data to it.
>> I then unplugged it during the reinstall of XP to keep it out of harms
> way,
>> and then plugged it in once XP was up and running. However, This was the
>> original release of XP, and I failed to get all of the service packs on
>> before plugging the disk back in, so it only showed 128GB of the 369GB
> that
>> should be there. And it claims the drive isn't formatted.
>>
>> I shut down, unplugged the disk again, ran all of the updates, (SP2,
> etc.),
>> and tried again. Still no data, and still only 128GB showing, and windows
>> still wants to format the drive.
>>
>
> Hopefully you have installed the motherboard SATA driver?
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>

Yep, the SATA driver is there. I know that if I killed the current
partitions, recreated one big one, and formatted it, it would be available.
Only problem is, all the data on it would go away.

I scanned it with a demo version of a file recovery program, and all of the
data and room is there, but I don't have 200+ GB to transfer the data to
readily available.


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