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Solve : Two drive formated by error??

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This is not fun. I lost data. Quote from: mac_sak on January 24, 2012, 06:42:37 AM

This is not fun. I lost data.
It's too late, MOVE on. Lesson learned? Always backup your data.Quote from: mac_sak on January 24, 2012, 06:42:37 AM
This is not fun. I lost data.
FOLLOWING IS UNEDITED DICTATION...

This form consists of the volunteers who want to help you. You have had a bad experience with your computer and if it's any help, some here have gone through the same experience. Myself included.
Looking through the information you posted is not clear what type of computer you have and how you attempted to format to drive.
To answer your original question here is a scenario based on some assumptions about what kind of computer you have.
The assumption is that you have a laptop computer made by one of a principal manufacturers and it came with Windows XP already installed on the machine when you received it.
There is no way to format the sea drive on that computer. The operating system does not allow that. Instead, you use a CD that contains some type of tool that can be used to format hard drive. The problem is a hard drive had been format at the factory with a special layout that is peculiar to manufacturers that so laptop computers. The only way to format the drive with the utility you use was to destroy the STRUCTURE on the drive and replace it with a new structure. This structure is sometimes called the MBR, or master boot record. Once that information has been overwritten their no longer it is a separate sea and the drive. Actually, they should be called partitions. In the common jargon used on Windows systems of partition is sometimes called a drive, which is misleading. Your drive originally had to partitions that had been created by a special utility used by the laptop manufacturer. This utility not only creates to partitions but creates an installation program on the second partition. That partition should not be used by the user to store data. It is the recovery partition that issues. Store the custom version of Windows XP back to the original factory condition.
There is no joy in making fun of you. This is happened to me, and I know better. But I did it anyway and suffered the consequences. To get your system back to the factory conditions you'll have to obtain some software from the manufacture. You may be able to get an installation CD that contains Windows XP, but a special version that is only licensed for use on your computer. This is the most cost-effective way of getting your computer back to the factory condition. Unfortunately, the installation CD available from the manufacturer may not have all the specific drivers needed for your specific model number. In that case you have to go to their side and find the additional chipset drivers or a motherh needed for your particular computeru.
Please excuse grammar errors in this post. I want to post this as soon as possible so if you'll understand the problem and we can get over the bickering back and forth as to what actually happened.
If you believe there is anyway the data on your computer can be recovered, here's a procedure you may wish to pursue. You purchase a replacement hard drive for your computer and you obtain a version of Windows XP that the key there is licensed for your computer or else purchase a brand-new retail version of Windows XP. In making new installation on your computer using the new hard drive and the Windows XP installation CD.
A possibility for covering data from the old drive is very small, but answer is such a possibility, we have to stop EXPERIMENTING with the drive and set aside until you locate somebody knows how to RECOVER the data from, if possible. And yes, there are programs available that will recovered data from a drive is been overwritten, in some cases. Personally, I do not know of a situation where data has been recovered from a drive that had been reformatted with possibly indifferent to file system.
I'm not trying to be smart or show off. I'm not real smart. But I am terribly experienced. I've been doing this stuff for years and the above comments are based on my own personal experiences. If the above does not match your experiences, the need to be more specific about telling others exactly what model computer you have and what techniques you use to try to format to hard drive.
As I said before, XP will not lead to format the c: drive, unless XP is not repeat resident on the C: drive.

Own no. Just noticed the speech record recognition program as interpreted by references to C: drive as to some kind of mythical sea drive. Widow, if it was made by Seagate, but I guess would be a sea drive.
Sorry about your loss. I sincerely hope this dictation will be of some help to you. Please bear in mind it is very difficult for me to edit incorrectness so does try to understand this was from dictation and will sound money in some places.


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