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Help to retreive documents.

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by morgans200

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I have a Compaq presario 2500 40gig,i reinstalled windows xp professional after that. i couldn't find my documents,pictures,music and programs in instaled. But in the Harddrive it show that i have free space of on 7gig space and other in use but i can't find my stuff. Please i need help. i have checked the hidden files but i can't find my stuffs.

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by computercookie

XP formatted the disk.

You cannot install an operating system on free space without installing it to a partition.

Your data can be recovered, however it depends on how much you can afford or if you know someone in the police force!

by oh smeg

Your Data is now gone as it reformats and destroys everything on the drive.

If you are willing to pay about 46 Thousand $ to recover your Data remove the HDD fit a new one and send the old one away for Forensic Recovery to a Data Recovery House that can perform Full Forensic Recovery Service.

As for your Data it's no longer there as at best the Main Drive Partition has the Windows OS and so on the 7 GIG Partition is a FAT 32 Partition which has the Recovery Files on to perform the Recovery Operation which returns the computer to As New Factory Installed Software and there should be a small area of the HDD which isn't allocated. This space is left over from Formatting the Drive.

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