Midnight brain fade--formatted drive

Discussion in 'Software' started by bigbazza, May 13, 2005.

  1. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    About midnight, last night, after rearranging what hard drive I boot from in the BIOS, I fdisked and formatted my E drive. I would like to get info back, if possible.

    http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35766 was an old link for this, according to my Excel database, but it has been deleted.

    Can anyone recommend a program that might allow me to get my E drive info back.

    I have not done anything further on "E" since stuffing it up. I was rearranging drives and data prior to installing XP Pro. YEP, I lashed out yesterday and paid out AUD$117 for an upgrade copy and wanted to install it on "C" after I had copied all "C" to"D". Then I was going to wipe "C" and install XP Pro on it. "E" was for safety, plus some old info from W95/W98 days.

    Hope someone has good news for this disaster. Bazza
     
    bigbazza, May 13, 2005
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  2. mga

    mga Private E-2

    how many hard drives are you running on that?

    also, once you format using fdisk "all information will be lost"
     
    mga, May 13, 2005
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  3. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    DavidGP, May 13, 2005
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  4. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    2 harddrives and a total of 3 partitions over both drives on my laptop.

    Bazza
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    bigbazza, May 13, 2005
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  5. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    Thanks Halo. Will give it a try. Bazza

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    bigbazza, May 13, 2005
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  6. Insomniac

    Insomniac Billy Ray Cyrus #1 Fan

    You bought XP Pro upgrade for AUS$117?

    That's pretty good, well done!

    I'm sure once you settle into it you will enjoy it a lot more than 98.
     
    Insomniac, May 13, 2005
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  7. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    Harvey Norman store Cairns, Friday the 13th sale (yesterday). 13% off for Friday the 13th. yep XP Pro upgrade Academic price, with Service pack 2 included. Bazza

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    bigbazza, May 13, 2005
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  8. ASUS

    ASUS MajorGeek

    Ahhhh,
    Caveman Jumps from Stoneage.
     
    ASUS, May 13, 2005
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  9. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    Offer too good to refuse. Gonna have to learn all over again. 2 friends have XP but they have little knowledge of PC's was another reason. Bazza

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    bigbazza, May 14, 2005
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  10. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    have you managed to recover any data Bazza?
     
    DavidGP, May 14, 2005
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  11. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    No luck so far. I have most of the stuff on another hard drive, anyhow. I have 1 x 30 gig and 2 x 10 gig drives for my laptop. Major problem is that I only have 1 secondary caddy for the 2 x 10 gig hard drives so would have to disassemble the caddy and install second drive in it. Not a major problem, but I was trying to avoid this. Need to buy a second caddy anyhow, but they want around USD$75 (AUD$100) and I have been putting it off. Gonna have to bite the bullet soon. Bazza

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    bigbazza, May 14, 2005
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