XP Install Seems to Have Compressed my D: Drive

[nannerz]

I have two physical drives: C:\ is the first drive and is 30 GB. My second drive is partitioned as D:\ and E:\ (from 100 years ago so I've just left it that way). When I installed Windows XP onto my C: drive, it "erased" my D: drive too! I used a freebie download to look at the D: drive for any files that could be "undeleted" ... but all that shows up are hidden XP restore point files. Any hope of getting rid of that and getting my data files back???

Any help is most appreciated!!

 

[N0ktar]

Use this software:

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

Install it and run it overnight, it is free and it performs file recovery operations.

 

[micker377]

Sounds like you installed XP as NTFS, and the secondary drive is Fat32. Is XP working? I'd remove the secondary drive and reinstall XP on the primary. Once XP is running OK, then put the secondary drive back in and do the "restore". You don't by chance have a ZIP drive in this system? If so, unplug it also untill everything is straightened out.