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| 36854 | 2002-02-24 03:11:00 | i ran fdisk to remove a partition on a drive, so i could then make multiple partitions, unfortunately ive fdisked the wrong drive. i stopped as soon as i realised, and havent made any new partitions, but is there any way to get the data back? or am i back to reinstalling windows | Guest (0) | ||
| 36855 | 2002-02-24 03:43:00 | If you kept a record of the partitions you had before the 'error' you should be OK. Don't use FDISK on it though. | Guest (0) | ||
| 36856 | 2002-02-24 04:47:00 | umm, there was only one partition, and it took up the whole drive. What should i use instead of fdisk? | Guest (0) | ||
| 36857 | 2002-02-24 07:43:00 | You didn't say what OS you are using or how far you got before you realised the error and pulled the plug. If you had performed a reformat see if your OS has an Unformat utility. Otherwise you could try the Unformat command from Norton Utilities but that may only work if you used Format from NU. Boot up from a floppy and run NU from a floppy - you can get enough of it on a floppy for your purposes. A third option is to check out Partition Magic - it may have an unformat facility. | Guest (0) | ||
| 36858 | 2002-02-24 07:48:00 | it was win98se, i got as far as deleting the partition in fdisk, then i realised and exited out, ive got partition magic, so i might give that a go | Guest (0) | ||
| 36859 | 2002-02-24 07:51:00 | If all else fails, you should be able to just recreate the partiton with FDISK, but not format it. As long as you haven't written anything to the disk everything will still be there. You may need to run 'FDISK /MBR' before it will see it though. It has worked for me once before with a FAT32 partiton using DOS FDISK, but it is a last resort. |
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| 36860 | 2002-02-25 01:18:00 | One partition should be OK. I suggested not using FDISK, because I don't know whether the modern versions try to format automatically. It's formatting that does the unrecoverable stuff. Partition Magic would probably be safe -- just make sure it does not do any formatting. The most it should do beyond making the partition is marking it as bootable. The public domain programme ranish would be good too: www.users.intercom,co,/~ranish |
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