Lost Data Recovery

[duhHomer]

I pulled a Homer Simpson and need help.

My PC is runing Win XP Pro SP2. I have 2 HHD. I copied all my data from HDD 1 to HDD 2 and reformatted HDD 1. I was upgrading the OS from win2000 to XP. I had some trouble with the installation of XP and decided to do a reinstall of XP on HHD1.

The reinstall started and it asked me if I wanted to change the drive to NTFS and I realized it was speaking about HDD2. I selected esc to exit the install and received a screen which asked me which HDD I wanted to install Win XP on. I selected HDD1 and all installed OK. I went to my backup drive HDD2 and all the data was gone. ((

I did not format the drive and I did not change the file structure, it is still a FAT32 which it was before hand.

What is the best software to use to get the data back? Money is not an issue I will pay for a product that works.

Can I get the data back??

I hope that by ending the setup on the 2nd drive before any data transferred or formatting I will be able to recover all of my data.

Why is it missing anyway I cancelled the setup and changed the drive before anything started??

Did XP just remove the drive structure (index) which showed the file locations in preperation to setup the OS??

Thanks for the help

I pulled a Homer

Don

 

[bpinning]

Hey,

Try Ontrack easy recovery professional.

It has fixed this and many other data problems for me.

Brett

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[kathe]

bpinning's recommendation would be fine. There are so many data recovery tools on internet. I often use Data Recovery Wizard which released by EASEUS(

http://www.easeus.com).

It works fine too. I think the "Advanced Recovery" function of this program can help you get the lost data back.

 

[Santei]

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