Re: Recover harddisk data

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On Aug 8, 2:44 am, "Alan T" <alanNOSPAMpl...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I got a nightmare of my harddisk recently:
My harddisk has dual boot of XP and Win2K, recently all partitions are 0KB
in size after I boot into my VISTA(installed on another harddisk). The VISTA
did a consistency check and deleted indexes and inserted the indexes on the
XP harddisk. I tried to view the XP's harddisk from VISTA, the partitions
are 0 KB in size and cannot be accessed from Windows Explorer.

Can I use the XP setup disk to boot up and do a recovery?

I don't think that you could do recovering booting from XP setup disk.
It would be better to do recovery from another PC.

As for the software - try DiskInternals Partition Recovery, it works
fine with VISTA, as I remember.

http://recovery-review.com/unformat-tools/diskinternals-partition-recovery-1-9.html

btw, it's a cool site with a plenty of software reviews, so you could
do some search there.

.



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