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Let's try again:
1) I have a hard disk (HD1) from my previous computer which had 3 partition.
2) I have a new computer with its own hard disk (HD2) that runs XP. I added
the HD1 to new PC. I copied all data to HD2. In HD1, I deleted the 3
partitions, created a single one and formated (I don't remember the order,
but there was only one possible way from the Disk Admin). This way I had two
volumes, C and D, in two phisical hard disks (1 & 2). And copied back all my
data to HD1 (vol D). Let's call it Config A.
3 ) This Config A went on ok for three weeks.
4) One evening I installed: my broadband connection software, the
anti-virus, all updates that Windows Updates asked me to.
5) The next time I swicht on the computer, I couldn't access my vol D (told
me this disk has no format, do you want to format it now). Went to the Disk
Admin. Saw that HD1 has once again 3 partition: two of them shown as vols. D
and E(waiting for format) and one shown as free space (waiting for creating a
new logic unit + format). This it is not even the state when I added HD1 to
the computer, but a transitional state when I was erasing HD1 partitions, as
I related in Point 2). Let's call it Config B.
Result: all data in D lost.
Question: how is that possible? Something related to MBR? Is there any
straightforward way to recover my config and my data? Because I imagine that
if the configuration (A) could somehow go back to a previous config (B),
there has to be a way for recovering it again (A), no?
I expect this time I explained better the situation. Thanks in advance,
Adeline
1) I have a hard disk (HD1) from my previous computer which had 3 partition.
2) I have a new computer with its own hard disk (HD2) that runs XP. I added
the HD1 to new PC. I copied all data to HD2. In HD1, I deleted the 3
partitions, created a single one and formated (I don't remember the order,
but there was only one possible way from the Disk Admin). This way I had two
volumes, C and D, in two phisical hard disks (1 & 2). And copied back all my
data to HD1 (vol D). Let's call it Config A.
3 ) This Config A went on ok for three weeks.
4) One evening I installed: my broadband connection software, the
anti-virus, all updates that Windows Updates asked me to.
5) The next time I swicht on the computer, I couldn't access my vol D (told
me this disk has no format, do you want to format it now). Went to the Disk
Admin. Saw that HD1 has once again 3 partition: two of them shown as vols. D
and E(waiting for format) and one shown as free space (waiting for creating a
new logic unit + format). This it is not even the state when I added HD1 to
the computer, but a transitional state when I was erasing HD1 partitions, as
I related in Point 2). Let's call it Config B.
Result: all data in D lost.
Question: how is that possible? Something related to MBR? Is there any
straightforward way to recover my config and my data? Because I imagine that
if the configuration (A) could somehow go back to a previous config (B),
there has to be a way for recovering it again (A), no?
I expect this time I explained better the situation. Thanks in advance,
Adeline