my reformat of windows screwed everything up...

[Atooraya]

I just reformatted Windows, and i can't access my 2nd drive that i had all of my backup files on

I partitioned the drive into a C: (windows) and D: (whatever), but it's not picking up G: which had all of my backup files

How do i fix this

[TheMostWantedPolishTwin]

what OS/ file system? is the G drive on a separate HD or it's just a logical drive?

[djnes]

I'll ask the obvious...are you sure you didn't format your drive with your data on it? Just asking because unfortunately, many people do it.

[FrothyByte]

first off, is the physical drive being picked up by the bios?

secondly, check the disk management in win XP and see if it is under another drive letter.

[KoZLop]

maybe G is fat32 or something :(

[FrothyByte]

Originally posted by KoZLop
maybe G is fat32 or something :(

Shouldn't matter.

WinXP can read and even be installed on both NTFS partitons and FAT32 partitions

[j0k3r]

Right-click and My Computer and select "Manage".

Click on Disk Management and see if you can see as many drives/partitions as you would expect to see.

Was this drive a compressed drive? If so a reformat is going to have problems reading a compressed drive from a different install.

[Atooraya]

I reformatted the correct drive...i chose the 1st drive which had almost no space left

i'm using XP

This is what computer manager looks like...

http://uploads.offtopic.com/files/hd.jpg


I'm trying to access that 121 gb on "M"

Also, that 2nd drive was partitioned into two drives, but now it's all under 1 drive

[j0k3r]

Have you installed the Service Pack and all the latest patches for Windows XP? Stock install may have a problem with a 152GB drive.

[Atooraya]

just did...same thing

It keeps saying that the disk is not formatted

[FiZ]

You must have deleted the partition by accident when you were choosing which partition you wanted to install XP on :( . There is really no other reason it should do that.

[Atooraya]

why would it partition perfectly into what i had used and what i had free on local disk 1 though :(

[Blue Knight]

I'm not sure, but did you use encryption on your backup files?

I've read that reformats install a different security certificate and you won't be able to see encrypted files from the old OS unless you kept a key.

Not sure if that applies in this situation though.

[Atooraya]

i didnt encrypt them, nor do i remember encrypting them

[Atooraya]

also, i couldn't have deleted the partition...

C: drive is still windows drive

[j0k3r]

Sorry dude, your data is gone. I wish I had better news for you. Try booting a linux distro and mounting the partition. See if you can see the data. If you can't see it that way, it is definitely gone.

[Atooraya]

how do i do the linux thing? :(

I might take it to a computer store and see what they can do there maybe :(

[Stanley Pain]

Looks like you formatted all your partitions.

:( bad stuff man.

Cheers,

MR. Pain

[berky]

when you installed windows, did you delete all the partitions, and then recreate them and only format the windows partition?

all data can be recovered, some just take advanced techniques, and i don't know how to do that, and i highly doubt you do either.

[hulksterjoe]

how about somehting like this

http://www.partition-recovery.com

Active@ Partition Recovery can recover deleted partition only if its location on hard disk drive has not already been overwritten. If you wisely created MBR backup using Active@ Partition Recovery, you can always restore MBR and partition information.

$30 dosent seem to steep, depending on what you lost



I just read a little more about this program and I dont think it'll save you..SORRY

[Atooraya]

http://www.runtime.org/

I'm running that right now

hopefully this works...as of now, 3% into it, it's found 2700 files

Hopefully this works :x:

[FiZ]

Good luck, losing backup stuff really sucks ass. Especially when you're on dial-up and have 2GB's worth of drivers and various other important shit (word doc's, etc.).

[berky]

Originally posted by Atooraya
http://www.runtime.org/

I'm running that right now

hopefully this works...as of now, 3% into it, it's found 2700 files

Hopefully this works :x:

i hope it knows the names of the files too. that would suck if it just named them like:

file.00001
file.00002
etc, etc.

my friend did that once and his were named something of that sort. basically not worth his time to rename a few thousand files by hand, not knowing what they could be until he tried to open them.

[Atooraya]

WELP, it worked :D

I got all of the files that i saw crucial back...

Now to dl more warez and movies :o

[Stanley Pain]

Originally posted by Atooraya
WELP, it worked :D

I got all of the files that i saw crucial back...

Now to dl more warez and movies :o

Warez are bad, mmmmkay.

Cheers,

Mr. Pain