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Windows 98 Disk Disaster!!!

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by fitzgerald_ian

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Hi there - I realise this may be the wring forum, but any help is appreciated! I've been sloppy and it hurts!! I added a second hard disk to a W98 computer. Also created a primary partition on it. This took the drive letter of my original D: drive, which had 360 MB of data on it. When I rebooted into 98, I did a quick format on my E: drive, thinking in error that I was formatting my new drive (forgot about the change of letter). I therefore lost the data from my old D: drive. I was wondering: as I did a quick format, is there a way of retrieving the data from disk?? I was hoping only the file allocation table itself was scrubbed. All I want to do is get the data back, I can worry about partitioning again later. Long question!! Thanks for the ideas guys... I'm in a big hole (no backup, I know...).

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by wim.muselle

since you have used format, you will not be able to recover, even if it was a quick format.
Windows makes the primary partition of your second drive , drive D.

by ong_matthew

If after formatting you put data into it .You might have a big problem.If not ,chances of getting back the data is 90-100%.
Try to use some utility like norton tools to recover the format sector.
Good Luck..

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