Hello, there!
I am looking for some advice, due to a panic situation unleashed by myself...
I used to have two partitions on a 20 Gb hard disk:
* 1st NTFS : 5Gb (C)
* 2nd FAT32: 15Gb (D)
Well, MS-Windows 2000 Professional had some awful trouble with some ntdll.dll stuff, so I decided to roll-back into my old fashion MS-Windows98 SE installation.
The FAT32 15Gb partition have all the data I wasn't able to back-up, a bunk of large files.
Everything was well planned:
Running fdisk in order to destroy the god-damn NTFS partition in C and to create a brand new one FTA32 in that 5Gb free space.
Everything went fine untill I decided to format c: /s my fresh FAT32 partition (yes, I am still talking about that 5Gb partition, the 15Gb partition MUST be kept untouchable).
But... and here's my fault, I forgot to switch unit names, so, I pressed <ENTER> when asked to format the C partition and then realised that in fact I was starting to format my loved & needed original D partition (15Gb)....!!!
Needless to say... I panic!! Ctrl+C, and then reboot the machine...
No way, ran fdisk again and switched the drive names in the correct way. The formatted the C (yes, now the 5Gb) partition and installed a fresh new one MS-Windows98SE.
But now I can't access my 15Gb partition. I guess the data is still there, I guess I only erased the FAT, the zero sector or whatever. Actually, I am preaching for that...!!
The question is:
Is there any tool like 'unformat' or 'low-lever data recovery' such as Norton or something like that?
Because Windows thinks it's a non-formatted unit and tries to format it!!
I've installed PartitionMagic version 8 but I prefer to seach for any other more powerful piece of software in order to try to recover my data.
Thanks In Advance and please apollogize for my despear.
Arlequín
arlequin_AT_internet_DOT_com_DOT_uy
I am looking for some advice, due to a panic situation unleashed by myself...
I used to have two partitions on a 20 Gb hard disk:
* 1st NTFS : 5Gb (C)
* 2nd FAT32: 15Gb (D)
Well, MS-Windows 2000 Professional had some awful trouble with some ntdll.dll stuff, so I decided to roll-back into my old fashion MS-Windows98 SE installation.
The FAT32 15Gb partition have all the data I wasn't able to back-up, a bunk of large files.
Everything was well planned:
Running fdisk in order to destroy the god-damn NTFS partition in C and to create a brand new one FTA32 in that 5Gb free space.
Everything went fine untill I decided to format c: /s my fresh FAT32 partition (yes, I am still talking about that 5Gb partition, the 15Gb partition MUST be kept untouchable).
But... and here's my fault, I forgot to switch unit names, so, I pressed <ENTER> when asked to format the C partition and then realised that in fact I was starting to format my loved & needed original D partition (15Gb)....!!!
Needless to say... I panic!! Ctrl+C, and then reboot the machine...
No way, ran fdisk again and switched the drive names in the correct way. The formatted the C (yes, now the 5Gb) partition and installed a fresh new one MS-Windows98SE.
But now I can't access my 15Gb partition. I guess the data is still there, I guess I only erased the FAT, the zero sector or whatever. Actually, I am preaching for that...!!
The question is:
Is there any tool like 'unformat' or 'low-lever data recovery' such as Norton or something like that?
Because Windows thinks it's a non-formatted unit and tries to format it!!
I've installed PartitionMagic version 8 but I prefer to seach for any other more powerful piece of software in order to try to recover my data.
Thanks In Advance and please apollogize for my despear.
Arlequín
arlequin_AT_internet_DOT_com_DOT_uy