how can i recover a drive?

Question

I have an external drive and during insatlation of XP i accidently selected that drive and chose to delete the partition! I did not continue to the format stage so it has not been formatted, I have all my personal files from past 3 years on the drive. Is there any way i can retrieve the files? Please help if you can and thanks in advance.

Answer 1

try this free program PC Inspector File Recovery

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pcinspector.html

Answer 2

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Answer 3

If you feel that the files are very important you can always go to a company that recovers lost data this is expensive so you must decide if you need them. Any computer shop should be able to help you find them. Good luck

Answer 4

You can get that partition back with the right software. I recommend using Testdisk- it's free, fast, and powerful- it's one of the best partition recovery tools out there. Go to http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk for the info, how to use, and download.

Answer 5

Ohne den Eltern auf die Füsse zu treten.

Answer 6

well...im not sure about that....but why dont you try calling the company that you bought it from, they could probably give you a more thorough answer that will help you.

Answer 7

run again and choose to partition that drive. cancel reformat. end.

Answer 8

start your engine