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
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.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::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.commailto: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.commailto: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
RE: partition recovery after attempted XP install
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
RE: partition recovery after attempted XP install
Awhile back a friend of mine wrote a pair of utilities for this sort of thing... PartFind and PartBuild. Both are available at www.magelair.com/downloads.html. Both are freeware and last time I asked, didn't care a thing what version of Windows they are running on. Maybe one or both of those would help? Dunno, but it's worth a shot. :-) From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: partition recovery after attempted XP install 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 Im missing something Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com 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) 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 doesnt want to spend any $ if he doesnt 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 hes 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 ~ 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
Re: partition recovery after attempted XP install
TestDisk, I think the app is called, its on the UBCD4win cd. I've used it in the past after messing partitions up, but not with usb so ymmv. T typed slowly on HTC Desire On 19 Oct 2010 17:50, 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.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ 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
RE: partition recovery after attempted XP install
Sam - If the Sony recovery set created (and then subsequently destroyed on the following attempt) two partitions, wouldn't recovering the MBR provide me with the partitions that the recovery set created (wrote over top of the data)? When I ran EASEUS Partition Recovery it found the two partitions that the Sony recovery set created, even though Windows Disk Management declared the entire drive as unallocated space. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: partition recovery after attempted XP install 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.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::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.commailto: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.commailto:jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comhttp://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.commailto: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.commailto: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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com
RE: partition recovery after attempted XP install
A WHILE back?!?!? It is written for DOS... not sure I want to try and use that on a 500 Gig drive... Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: partition recovery after attempted XP install Awhile back a friend of mine wrote a pair of utilities for this sort of thing... PartFind and PartBuild. Both are available at www.magelair.com/downloads.html. Both are freeware and last time I asked, didn't care a thing what version of Windows they are running on. Maybe one or both of those would help? Dunno, but it's worth a shot. :-) From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: partition recovery after attempted XP install 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 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) 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions
RE: partition recovery after attempted XP install
Thanks Tony - I've got a couple of copies of UBCD4win, but somehow I missed that utility. I'll boot one up tonight and see what it yields. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: Tony Patton [mailto:apco...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: partition recovery after attempted XP install TestDisk, I think the app is called, its on the UBCD4win cd. I've used it in the past after messing partitions up, but not with usb so ymmv. T typed slowly on HTC Desire On 19 Oct 2010 17:50, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.commailto: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.commailto:jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.commailto:20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comhttp://www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ 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.commailto: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.commailto: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
Re: partition recovery after attempted XP install
The Windows Disk Management tool is quite horrible. Its not to be relied upon except for the most basic of tasks. -- ME2 On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Sam - If the Sony recovery set created (and then subsequently destroyed on the following attempt) two partitions, wouldn’t recovering the MBR provide me with the partitions that the recovery set created (wrote over top of the data)? When I ran *EASEUS Partition Recovery* it found the two partitions that the Sony recovery set created, even though Windows Disk Management declared the entire drive as unallocated space. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA* *jra...@eaglemds.com* * www.eaglemds.com -- *From:* Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:56 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: partition recovery after attempted XP install 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* *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
Re: partition recovery after attempted XP install
Understand agree. I was simply using it for frame of reference. Jonathan L. Raper, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Incredible (and yes, it really is) Droid. Please excuse brevity any misspellings. - Reply message - From: Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 6:19 pm Subject: partition recovery after attempted XP install To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com The Windows Disk Management tool is quite horrible. Its not to be relied upon except for the most basic of tasks. -- ME2 On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.commailto:jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Sam - If the Sony recovery set created (and then subsequently destroyed on the following attempt) two partitions, wouldn’t recovering the MBR provide me with the partitions that the recovery set created (wrote over top of the data)? When I ran EASEUS Partition Recovery it found the two partitions that the Sony recovery set created, even though Windows Disk Management declared the entire drive as unallocated space. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.commailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: partition recovery after attempted XP install 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.commailto: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 www.eaglemds.com From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.commailto: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.commailto: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.commailto:jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comhttp://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.commailto: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
