Due to a system crash I had to reinstall Windows XP, but because my hard drive is 300 gig Windows didn't pick it up properly.
I've had a read up and found that I need Windows XP with SP2 integrated to pick up my hard drive properly.
However before I knew this, I tried using Windows XP the original with no service packs integrated, and it picked my hard drive up as about 128 gig. I pressed F3 to quit so as not to change the partition table, only to find that Windows had created a 128 gig partition on my hard drive, but the partition is not accessible and I think I may have lost all the information that was on my drive.
I think it may have corrupted the boot block and have used various tools to rewrite the MBR, but still nothing.
Does anybody have any idea if I can restore the hard drive to how it was before the 128 gig partition was created, or of any software that will scan the drive and allow me to copy the contents to another drive.
Thanks in advance
2007-02-15
12:58:09
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