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Help! Reformatted my win XP data drive D: and installed Fedora core Need my data back

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27-Feb-2005, 07:26 PM #1
Help! Reformatted my win XP data drive D: and installed Fedora core Need my data back
I have two identical drives a C and a D drive C was set up as primary and D as secondary. The C drive had winxp pro and my programs on it and the D drive was my storage drive for all my music and important files. I decided to reinstall winXP on my C drive and it kept giving me problems so I decided to install Linux Fedora on it instead. I am getting an external drive in a couple of days and figured I'd just reinstall winXP on the C drive and remove fedora when it got here then move my music and data from the D drive to the external. Then I would reformat both C and D drives and sell them. When looking in the case I mistook one for the other and reformatted my secondary D drive, then installed fedora Core onto it. During install I instructed it to remove all OS's and reformat everything. I had about 28 gigs of data and fedora core is only .5 gigs or so.

Now I have my D drive formatted with Fedora core and my C drive as it was with Win XP and my programs.

Can I set the C drive as primary again and plug in the D drive as secondary then from disk management change the D drive back to a windows format like NFTS or what ever and then run some program to get my data back?

Please Help all my stuff is on that disk.

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27-Feb-2005, 07:32 PM #2
If you reformatted your d drive then you have lost what information that was on that drive. I learned the hard way myself if you have 2 harddrives unplug the one you don't want to format.
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03-Mar-2005, 04:53 PM #3
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If you reformatted your d drive then you have lost what information that was on that drive. I learned the hard way myself if you have 2 harddrives unplug the one you don't want to format.
not necessarily you will be able to quite a bit of data from the drive but unless your very clued up you'll have to pay someone to do it which cost big $$$
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03-Mar-2005, 07:15 PM #4
There is recovery software available but Im not sure how reliable it is. Ive seen it for around $25-$50.
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04-Mar-2005, 02:09 AM #5
If it is really important, then I would unplug the drive and take it to a data recovery place. Like blubirdx said though, it will probably cost you a few bucks. Trying to do it yourself, you may just make it totally unrecoverable, even by the experts.
Or you could just restore it from your backups.
....you did have backups didnt you
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