Formatting a partition harddrive

[kiepie]

Hi all,

I formatted my 300GIG Seagate last night, I created 3 partitions on it a few months ago. One is 130GIG and the others are 70GIG and 100GIG.

When the format screen popped up, I only deleted the 130GIG and installed a fresh copy of Windows. After I installed SP2, I was able to view the other 170GIG (although only one partition now)

When i click on it, it ask me to format it.

Did I mess it up with the format, is all that data lost now?

 

[Dark Agent]

Yes.... All gone.....

I also tried that but lucky I had back-up.

 

[kiepie]

I have no idea why the partition I didn't format is all useless now...

 

[LFX]

the data will NOT be lost UNLESS you have written over it. even if you somehow deleted the partition the files are still there, best you can do to retrieve your data is slave the drive in another pc, then run some recovery software (garyvdh will help you to choose which 1) on the drive . . .

it all boils down to how important the data is to u?

p.s. dont listen to ismail

 

[LazyLion]

Get Data back for NTFS! FTW!
http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

But you might even get away with Partition Recovery software...
http://www.s2services.com/partitionmgrsfreeware.htm
http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/partitioneditors.shtml

There is a free version of GetDataBack on the Hiren's Boot CD if you can get hold of a copy.

 

[kiepie]

Thanks guys,

I do have Recover My Files and that takes like for ages (5-9 days on 170GIG) and after the recovery all the file names have changed to "recovered file xxx"

Is this the same with GetDataBack

 

[ponder]

Also try Ontrack EasyRecovery Professional.

 

[LazyLion]

Thanks guys,

I do have Recover My Files and that takes like for ages (5-9 days on 170GIG) and after the recovery all the file names have changed to "recovered file xxx"

Is this the same with GetDataBack

No, GetDataBack does a much better job of retreiving the files whole.

Did you format the partition yet? If so, then all you need is an unformat tool.

 

[Dark Agent]

No, GetDataBack does a much better job of retreiving the files whole.

Did you format the partition yet? If so, then all you need is an unformat tool.

unformat
If you done a complete format and not a quick format can you recover DATA still ???

Link to software?

 

[kiepie]

No, GetDataBack does a much better job of retreiving the files whole.

Did you format the partition yet? If so, then all you need is an unformat tool.

My HDD looks like this in Windows

C 130G
D 70G
E 100G

In the format setup, I only saw

C 130G

So I formatted that

After I installed Windows I only saw this

C 130G

So after Service Pack 2, it showed me

C 130G
D 170G You need to format

 

[LazyLion]

unformat
If you done a complete format and not a quick format can you recover DATA still ???

Link to software?

Yes, even if it was a complete format you can still recover it.

http://finaldownload.com/backup_2_0_restorer2000_data_recovery_software-6970-software.html

 

[LazyLion]

My HDD looks like this in Windows

So after Service Pack 2, it showed me

C 130G
D 170G You need to format

so the last two partitions were somehow combined?

 

[bekdik]

That looks like you deleted the other 2 partitions.

 

[kiepie]

so the last two partitions were somehow combined?

Some how, but it isn't even accesible, asks for a format when I click on it, like a flash drive.

That looks like you deleted the other 2 partitions.

Looks like it, but it wasn't even visible when i did the format.