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eps

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7,160 posts

300 months

Thursday 29th April 2010
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Doh!

Whilst trying to get a multi-boot system working, I've somehow allowed my NTFS data partition to think that it's not formatted anymore.

Has anyone been through this recently on Windows XP Pro? If so any tips on recovering the drive or files?

I've currently got Disk Recovery from diskinternals chugging through the drive...

Of course I've also got Outlook installed on the data partition as well.

I think that Disk Recovery will finish in about 1 hr (halfway through atm).

Tanguero

4,535 posts

232 months

Thursday 29th April 2010
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The chances are that it has just screwed with the MBR/Partition table - you may well be able to bring it back using R-studio or similar. It would probably help if you know how the drive was partitioned in the first place.


eps

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7,160 posts

300 months

Thursday 29th April 2010
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Cheers, I'll take a look, have you used it before?

93% analysed now, using Disk Recovery... I'm sure it will come up with a "now press here to purchase at the end of it"