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kanakavalli27

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I backed up data from C-Drive to D-drive and then reloaded Windows XP prof (due to corrupt Dlls). Now Drive C is OK. Bios shows both the drives and Disk management snap-in shows both the drives. However it has NO VOLUME or Drive letter. I contacted Maxtor for solution to no avail! I have Pentium-4, 2.2 Ghz with 1 GB memory. Is there a way to access the D-drive without resorting to some data recovery software? If not what software is good for recovering data from Drive-D?
 
Did you have a program called GoBack installed prior to your reinstall of XP? If so, reinstall it.

Others have reported very favorably on the data recovery program GetDataBack at
 
is the partition FAT32 or NTFS?

I use Winternals disk commander
though
Spinrite works very good too
it sounds as though the MBR was corrupted
 
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