Re: Recovering data from a large SATA after XP reinstall

If this can be of use to anyone in the future:

Per MS Support, there is no way for XP to save the partition information and
data at this point.

The demo version of the data recovery product at http://www.easeus.com/ has
found all of the files on the messed up hard drive. I've purchused the full
version, and am running it now. Do note that you will need currently
accessable free space on your system equal to the size of the files you are
trying to recover - in other words, if you had 350GB lost on the drive, you
will need 350GB of free space outside of the messed up drive to copy the
data to. This will not magically "fix" the lost partition information.

If someone knows of a tool that can recover the partition information
without needing to copy the recovered data to someplace else, please let all
of us know.


"Kirk Dudley" <kdudley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:dpscje01jah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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.
>
> How can I ether
> A: Get to the data on it so I can move it somewhere else, and then
> work on the drive problem,
> or
> B: Save the original partition and data info on the drive so XP can
> use it?
>
> TIA for any help.
>


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