Lost My Drive

[Guest]

I cloned my drive into a new 200G disk and formated and installed WinXP SP2
in the old drive.

Immediately I successfully installed WinXP SP2, I was unable to access to my
200G disk. Instead of 200g, it showed an unformated 30G and asked whether I
wanted to format it. I stoped there and tried various disk recovery software
but could only recover very less than 10% of my data files.

Can anyone advise how can I recover my data?

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP\)]

Please take this to the windowsxp.hardware newsgroup.

 

[Guest]

Is the 200G drive formatted as NTSF, FAT32 or FAT? If Fat32 or Fat, you
found your problem.

If you have not reformatted ANY of the 200G drive since you installed SP2,
or messed around with it to the point you have corrupted the files, the data
is still there.

Download Partition Commander 9.0 from wherever, and be sure your drives are
all formatted to the same file format. Just follow the simple directions to
load from the boot disk you create with PC 9.0. My bet is you have NTSF on
your hard disk 0 and Fat32 on your external drive. Or some even more funky
partition formats.

Chief Naka

 

[Guest]

Dear Chief Naka,

Yes, my Drive 0 is FAT32, but the 200G is NTSF.

Can the Partition Commander helped? Can you describe a bit more which
function of the Partition Commander should I use to rectify the problem?

Your assistance is highly appreciated.

 

[randy parkhurst]

I cloned my drive into a new 200G disk and formated and installed WinXP SP2
in the old drive.

Immediately I successfully installed WinXP SP2, I was unable to access to my
200G disk. Instead of 200g, it showed an unformated 30G and asked whether I
wanted to format it. I stoped there and tried various disk recovery software
but could only recover very less than 10% of my data files.

Can anyone advise how can I recover my data?

Not sure if this site helps, but give it a try.
treetop

 

[Guest]

Dear Randy,

Can you let me have the url of your suggested site?

Many thanks.