Computer is HP Pavilion a1640n
2006-10-25 15:56:08 · 5 answers · asked by bloodyhell1981 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
If you have recovery dics, you should be able to boot from them to recover; otherwise, contact HP for help.
You SHOULD have read the Manual BEFORE trying this!!
2006-10-25 16:07:13 · answer #1 · answered by f100_supersabre 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bloody,
I have a small list of free and robust File Recovery Tools that I have found to be of assistance whenever I encouter drive failure that I'd like to share with you...They will help you to reformat
TestDisk is the utility that will help you recover that NTFS partition. I did the same as you in error and this nifty program worked for me.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
More invaluable system recovery resources
http://www.freebyte.com/filediskutils/#datarecovery
2006-10-26 09:18:09 · answer #2 · answered by midnightlydy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey there. Once you go from FAT32 to NTFS you can not go back to FAT32. I'm assuming you're reinstalling Win98? Anywho, you'll need a Windows Startup Disk for which ever version Windows you are installing. If you don't have one, you'll need to get a friend to make you one or get one at www.bootdisk.com Restart with the startup disk in and you'll find the options you need to reinstall windows as ntfs. good luck :-)
2006-10-25 17:03:13 · answer #3 · answered by Army Of Machines (Wi-Semper-Fi)! 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Were the recovery programs on that drive? Did you make a backup? You lost all programs on that drive when you reformatted.
2006-10-25 15:57:46 · answer #4 · answered by Jordan L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if u r telling about data recovery u can use data recovery softwares available on internet where you will be able to recover data even from corrupted harddisk
2006-10-26 01:00:59 · answer #5 · answered by raj n 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋