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Answer» Here is the story,
My 80gig finally died that had windows on it, so i got a new 160gig sata and swapped them out.
I left my 1.5TB and 640g drives connected the whole time.
When I booted up for the first time with no OS isntalled on the new drive, it wanted me to format it, so i did, and then it also had me format LIKE 131gigs on the other 2, i think??
So now, when i go to my computer and click on the big drives, they dont open, they say they need to be formatted, but this is SOMETHING I do not WANT to do!! its where all my stuff is!!!
Is there anything I can do to get my stuff back? see attached image.. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
[Saving space, attachment deleted by admin]Okay, I give up. How did you boot to a drive with no OS on it?I mean I put in the hard drive, put the XP disc in the CD rom and hit the "on" button on the tower. sorry heheThen what? Did you boot to the CD? Did you then install the OS on the new drive? And what do you mean it had you format the other drives? I installed XP on the new drive, but for some REASON before the installation ever occured it just wanted me to format a partition on the other drives, I thought perhaps it switched the drive letters around on me because it said something like
format 131gb on drive F
format 131gb on drive D
format 131gb and drive C
and I stupidly let it make the new partitions on the storage drives.
can you see the picture i attached?
im just wondering if I can make the other partion the active one i guess?? is that possible??now i realize that i formatted a partition on one of my OLD hard drives AND the new one, and installed windows on the OLD hard drive!!!!
so i unplugged the 2 old HDs and am currently installing windows on the NEW Hard drive, with hopes to rescue the data from the OLD hard drives when i plug them in..
any idea how i would be able to rescue the data?:Not if the drives partitions were wiped and formatted...
There are data recovery Apps out ther but i'd say it's about 50/ 50 right now.Quote from: snarcher on December 03, 2009, 10:47:43 AM ...any idea how i would be able to rescue the data?: You'll find out when you plug them back in. Like Patio says, about 50/50 chance.ok so I used recuva and got just about all my stuff back even AFTER i formatted my back up hard drives! crazy program! WOOHOO!!!
so what I did was:
install new hard drive
create a new partition on my back up hard drives
install windows on one of the back ups INSTEAD of my new hard drive
so to fix, I unplugged the back up hard drives, re-formatted my new hard drive, installed windows on it, then I plugged my back up hard drives back in and formatted them after I ran recuva on them.
workin great now, thanks bye!
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