Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:11 pmAlright so heres my story:
I was partitioning my 200GB hard drive to make way for Vista (which is a whole other story why I uninstalled it in the first place
). This is what the partition setup would have been:
Partition 1- 25GB- Windows XP Home
Partition 2-140GB- Games and Programs
Partition 3-25GB- Windows Vista
I started up Partition Magic, and it said it needed to restart the system because some of the files which needed to be moved were in use. I thought, 'this is normal, it always does this'.
So, I turned the screen off, and went to watch Tv for a couple of hours. I came back, and saw it had booted into Windows, and there was C drive, D drive and E drive (as expected). I checked out the contents of the dirves, to make sure everything was alright. Windows XP paritition- fine. Windows Vista partition-fine. Games partition- Uh Oh.... "This drive is not formatted. Would you like to format E drive?"
I really dont know what happened. Of course, I didnt have anything backed up. I tried some demos of some expensive hard drive recovery programes and none of them worked. I gave up, and formatted the drive. Then I remembered that you could get the data off formatted drives! I tried it, and I had success!!
Using "Recover My Files", I managed to find 100% of the files, even after the partition was corrupted, I tried fixing the partition table (unsuccessfully), and I had re formatted the drive. Only problem is, I dont have enough room to hold all 130GB of my games and junk. So, I made the decision to buy a new hard drive in order to have somewhere to save the recovered files.
I purchased a Western Digital Carvaire SE WD200JB or something (forgot the full name), which is also a 200GB IDE 7200RPM drive. I am going to hook it up along with my Maxtor IDE 200GB IDE 7200 drive in a RAID 0 array. Throught Id try something new, as Ive never had anything to do with RAID before
So your probably thinking what is the point of this story? Well I will tell you...
I , Brownbox, managed to fix a problem successfully, without breaking something else!!
Cheers
BB
I was partitioning my 200GB hard drive to make way for Vista (which is a whole other story why I uninstalled it in the first place
). This is what the partition setup would have been:Partition 1- 25GB- Windows XP Home
Partition 2-140GB- Games and Programs
Partition 3-25GB- Windows Vista
I started up Partition Magic, and it said it needed to restart the system because some of the files which needed to be moved were in use. I thought, 'this is normal, it always does this'.
So, I turned the screen off, and went to watch Tv for a couple of hours. I came back, and saw it had booted into Windows, and there was C drive, D drive and E drive (as expected). I checked out the contents of the dirves, to make sure everything was alright. Windows XP paritition- fine. Windows Vista partition-fine. Games partition- Uh Oh.... "This drive is not formatted. Would you like to format E drive?"
I really dont know what happened. Of course, I didnt have anything backed up. I tried some demos of some expensive hard drive recovery programes and none of them worked. I gave up, and formatted the drive. Then I remembered that you could get the data off formatted drives! I tried it, and I had success!!
Using "Recover My Files", I managed to find 100% of the files, even after the partition was corrupted, I tried fixing the partition table (unsuccessfully), and I had re formatted the drive. Only problem is, I dont have enough room to hold all 130GB of my games and junk. So, I made the decision to buy a new hard drive in order to have somewhere to save the recovered files.
I purchased a Western Digital Carvaire SE WD200JB or something (forgot the full name), which is also a 200GB IDE 7200RPM drive. I am going to hook it up along with my Maxtor IDE 200GB IDE 7200 drive in a RAID 0 array. Throught Id try something new, as Ive never had anything to do with RAID before
So your probably thinking what is the point of this story? Well I will tell you...
I , Brownbox, managed to fix a problem successfully, without breaking something else!!
Cheers
BB
