Hey, I need help badly... While helping my mom reload her computer with win XP, I inadvertantly purged the hard disk partition for my external hard drive (long story, needless to say DAMN MICROSOFT for mislabeling my EXTERNAL drive as "C" when I went through setup... why, God, why??).
So anyway, now when I connect my hard drive it thinks it needs to be refoamatted. It only deleted the partition formatting- I'm pretty sure and did not overwrite any of the data, and I NEED IT because I sent her backup files to the external disc prior to installing XP! Is there ANY way to restore the partition WITHOUT overwriting/deleting the files on the drive?????? Naturally, if I DO reformat then any data on the drive WILL be gone forever.
ANY help would be greatly appreciated! Please get back to me ASAP if you have anything I can use. Thanks a million in advance!
So anyway, now when I connect my hard drive it thinks it needs to be refoamatted. It only deleted the partition formatting- I'm pretty sure and did not overwrite any of the data, and I NEED IT because I sent her backup files to the external disc prior to installing XP! Is there ANY way to restore the partition WITHOUT overwriting/deleting the files on the drive?????? Naturally, if I DO reformat then any data on the drive WILL be gone forever.
ANY help would be greatly appreciated! Please get back to me ASAP if you have anything I can use. Thanks a million in advance!