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Slave drive says format disc after xp installation

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by djaeyst

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Originally I had XP professional installed on my computers c: drive(40GB), my drive D: was 250GB & stored my backup data. After copying most of C onto D:, I then installed XP home w/SP2 onto my C: drive. Now my D: drive reads 0 data, 0 space available, and when selected in my computer, indicates the disc needs to be formatted. Even when placced in an external drive mounting kit the windows indicates the drive needs formatting. Zero assumption recover(ZAR) application shows some files but not the important ones. Any help recovering all files would be appreciated?

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by oh smeg

The Help Files will tell you how to do this with whatever system you currently have the HDD in.

Failing that if you need some Data Recovery Software you have several choices the best is On Tracks EasyRecovery Professional

http://tinyurl.com/3bb2t2

Or another piece of Software called Spin Right does a similar thing

http://tinyurl.com/8p4ex

Then you have these options all of which may be of use [b]but remember if the piece of software recovers files from a HDD never Save the Recovered Files to the HDD that they are coming off as you run the risk of overwriting other files.[/b]

http://tinyurl.com/lmp47

http://tinyurl.com/273ay5

http://tinyurl.com/afu2j

http://tinyurl.com/rmvrv

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http://tinyurl.com/382vm

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Finially this one should only be considered if you know Hex inside out as it has the ability to do a lot of damage if used incorrectly

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You should find something in the above that will suit your needs. The Programs that rebuild Partitions tend to work faster but they also tend to cost more as well where as the programs that recover individual files or File Types can take a very long time to run and be very slow.

Col

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