Recover Format D:

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Dear community,

Could someone be so kind to explain me on how to recover from drive
format ?

It goes about a logical drive placed into the extended partition. The
drive is not "mounted", that means it is not yet visible in Windows
Explorer. I can only access it through PowerQuest Partition Magic,
that can also browse the drive.

The drive is 29GB in total and 14MB are used in a system directory
called "System Volume Information". Only one subdirectory appears
"_recover...".

Is it still possible to recover my mistake ? Is there any procedure to
recover the drive safely ?

Thanks in advance for your support.

R.
 
Buggs cogitated deeply and scribbled thusly:
Dear community,

Could someone be so kind to explain me on how to recover from drive
format ?
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What, exactly, do you mean by "recover from drive format"? Do you mean
that you formatted a drive by mistake, or what?
 
Gordon said:
Buggs cogitated deeply and scribbled thusly:


What, exactly, do you mean by "recover from drive format"? Do you mean
that you formatted a drive by mistake, or what?
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Yes, that's it. Unfortunately, the well-known UNFORMAT command that
was available in earlier versions of the DOS command shell disappeared
according to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...DOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/dos_diffs.asp

Meanwhile, I learned more about the new feature called "System
Recovery" that allows to recover the system to a previous state. And I
suspect the "System Volume Information" directory to contain these
information. Although I could not verify this point, it would be then
only allowed to recover the internal registery of Windows XP by this
mean.

Still, there should be a mean to recover a previously formated
hard-drive unless no other changes are made on it. Like UNFORMAT, some
vital information like the FAT and information area placed just after
the boot record would be kept. The question is, whether Microsoft
Windows XP features it or not. If not, why ?

R.
 
XP doesn't have this feature because that was a DOS command and XP is not
built on DOS as was the case of previous 9x OSs. You might try
www.google.com and do a search on UNFORMAT to see if you can find an XP
compatible tool that might be help.
 
XP doesn't have this feature because that was a DOS command and XP is not
built on DOS as was the case of previous 9x OSs.
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Two points:

1) Win9x isn't quite as "built on DOS" as you imply
2) The real issue is XP has no maintenance tools to do the same tasks

I would not expect these tools to be the same old DOS tools.
I would however expect these tools to exist.


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