While reformatting and reinstalling my system the other day, I was in the windows xp set-up blue screen and I accidentally removed the partition my 200GB back-up drive. As soon as I realized, I shut off the computer and unplugged the drive, since it hadn't been reformatted and I knew I could resotre the data.
OS and main drive are fine, data has been recovered, but now I can't initalize the back-up drive correctly. I thinks its 131GB. I thought the MBR might have become corrupted since I interrupted windows setup program while the drive was plugged in but I can't seem to fix it. I've tried fixmbr, I've tried booting with win98 cd to run fdisk, but it says the drive is invlalid, both while it was formatted as a 131gb drive, and while it was unallocated space.
I'm out of ideas to try. Any thoughts?
2006-09-27 05:24:23 · 4 answers · asked by gazoid 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
You deleted the partition table, so it isn't easy to get it back. You are going to have to use some type of data recovery software like this: http://www.partition-recovery.com/. I don't know of anything free but this is only $30. The other ones we have in the shop are several hundred dollars.
2006-09-27 05:34:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your BIOS should show you the size of the hard drve and manufacturer.. So if in doubt you can goto their site to get the detail on your particualr model, or better yet pull the drive to see what size it states on the label.
As soon as you start a reformat, your done.. unpluggin, etc will not "put it back" to normal.
If you use Windows XP, goto control panel.administrative tools and then computer management.. and you can get the inofrmation and try to format , re-partion there under Disk management
2006-09-27 05:31:34 · answer #2 · answered by Chuck 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
75mb and 8mb???.... i'd wish you mean GB in the experience that your stress crashed possibly something of the stress is unreadable as a results of crash ... it really is conceivable that you've diverse platters contained in the stress and the various platters are bodily damaged in which case (till you employ intense priced intense tech organizations) you've lost your records ... placed it all the way down to experience and start up over ... continually shop backup OFF your significant stress
2016-11-24 22:32:07 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-27 05:26:00 · answer #4 · answered by Linds 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋