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OK firstly i have two hard drives C & D.
My pc was running slow so i re-installed XP onto my C drive, formatting first then installing.
It installed ok, but now my D drive doesn't open and i get a message saying would you like to format....
When i go to manage drive, it says my D drive has 100% free space.
Is there anyway i'd be able to get my work off the D drive as i know i definately did not format it.
Thanks.
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Posted: 2006-03-15 16:54:56
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Great chance that you erased the partition of the D drive ... . Go back to the installation of Windows XP and look at the D drive, if it says unpartitionned then you are f****d up.
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Posted: 2006-03-15 17:53:21
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i had a simular problem. i had 2 xp installations on one partition and one wouldnt boot and i wanted my docs from that installation. i couldnt access them from the working installation so i backed up thw whole hdd using an image program (free off google) them i could open the image and extract my documents. worked perfectly. maybe if you do that your documents will appear but theres also the chance you have formatted that partition as said above. both are worth a go
dude_se
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Posted: 2006-03-15 18:31:06
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My D drive is definately not been formatted.
When using ontrack data recovery it finds the files, so i'll give that a try.
Thanks.
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Posted: 2006-03-15 18:33:47
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must just be because you reinstalled the os on drive c so it now doesnt want to reconise drive d. if the data recovery software works just try and get a free one, backup all the data then format the d partition. maybe that will fix it
dude_se
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Posted: 2006-03-15 18:37:05
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Was your D Drive NTFS or FAT32 formatted?
If NTFS it shoudln't be too hard to recover at all.
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Posted: 2006-03-15 21:13:35
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NTFS
Managed to copy over to C. Now need to copy onto External HDD, Install XP and then Format D.
Thanks for help
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Posted: 2006-03-15 21:17:36
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@anay:
You should be able to use the disktools that come with windowsXp to recover the partition if you can still read all its data. NTFS stores its allocations at the beginnning and the end of the drive I believe (outside and center) so if one is wiped you can usually recover it without much of a problem. I've had to in the past.
With your XP cd, boot it up and into the recovery console. From there I forget exactly what to do, but issue the ? command and it'll show you the various commands to use
If I remember (and it's pretty blank right now being morning
) the command you want is Diskpart
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Posted: 2006-03-15 21:43:33
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