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September 12, 2006 at 08:27 AM
stanleyjoe53

Accidently formatted wrong drive

by stanleyjoe53 . Updated 19 years, 9 months ago

Help! ON Dell Precision 670 w/XP Pro and scsi raid C drive, I wsa going to reformat and install OS. I booted off Xp Disk and launched the raid drivers so I could access the striped drive and reformat, Windows brought up the second drive I use as storage and called it the c drive. I started the format. Within the first 1% of the format I realize the size was much too big and knew I had started formating the wrong drive. In the end, the format failed. When I restart, the drive mounts but only as a RAW drive. If I click on it I’m asked if I want to reformat. I’m assuming the directory has been corrupted but I’m sure all of the critical data I have is still there. I have Winternal but when I launch file restore it only shows the c drive since the driveI lost isn’t formated. I’m thinking I”m safer not to reformat at this point but not sure how to recover the data in tact. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks!

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