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

From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:40:18 +1100

Will this work, considering that the OP is dealing with
a USB disk? I assume that "bootable floppy" means
"DOS bootable floppy", but DOS does not recognise
USB devices.

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:%23xfW%23v6$EHA.1404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> 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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