Your MBR (Master Boot Record) is junked. Fix that, and all your files might automagically appear. Or, you still might need to run recuvia.
From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: partition recovery after attempted XP install I downloaded and installed that one, but it apparently has to detect a partition in order to search the drive...unless I'm missing something... Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com <BLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> www.eaglemds.com <BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/> ________________________________ From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: partition recovery after attempted XP install Recuva is one tool to check... ASB (My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle <jra...@eaglemds.com> wrote: I have a friend who attempted to install XP on a new larger hard drive on his Sony Vaio (yuck, but I digress) and ran into failures after 3 attempts, so he called me. I get to his house and notice that his external Seagate hdd is still attached via USB. I disconnected it and the install worked like a champ. It turns out that the system detected his external USB drive as a bootable device and attempted to install XP multiple times with a 30 Gig primary partition and a 470 Gig secondary. So, all the data he had on this external drive is lost. He does have backups of some of the data, but do any of you know of any tools (preferably free, as he doesn't want to spend any $ if he doesn't have to) that would possibly be able to recover the data? I know it is a long shot... Presently the space on the drive is listed as unallocated in Disk Management. I tried http://easeus.com/partition-recovery/ and it did find the partitions that the Sony recovery disks created, but nothing else... Any other advice before I format and tell him he's out of luck? Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ________________________________ Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that it contains. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
