OH GOD, Someone please help!!!

 

I accidentally deleted the partition on my backup hard-drive d: while I was trying to install a fresh XP OS install on primary drive c: .

 

Couple of days ago, I was attacked by a real bad virus so I decided to format my primary drive c: and start fresh. Move everything important from my c: to my backup drive d: for protection.

 

During installations of new windows xp OS. I deleted the partitions for both the c: and d: ...by accident for the d:

 

When new OS came up, notice d: is now my cd-rom drive and now my old backup drive d: disappeared. Went back in to installation cd and partition back my backup drive. Turn on comp and my backup drive is now backup drive f:. When I try to access it, it said drive not ready to use and it needs to be formatted. Check Properties and it has zero capacity and zero data. I never formatted this drive so I know data is still in there.

 

Can someone please help me get back my old partition for my back up drive. I have very important backup contracts and projects on there I desperately need!!!!

 

Thanks in advance.

Try http://download.getdata.com/3-50beta/recovermyfiles.exe

 

Or you could try Partition Table Doctor.( http://www.ptdd.com/download.htm )

 

 

This will work if ALL you did was delete the partition, if data was written to it, then you might be out of luck without incurring some expense by using a professional data recovery service.

 

NEXT TIME, please follow the advice that I give EVERYBODY, even the PROS ..

 

JUST UNPLUG THE DRIVE TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE !!!

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If you deleted the partition during install all data was lost. You created a new partition and in order to use it you have to format it. Not much you can do except pay big money to data recovery experts. They could possibbly get your data back.

I guess i'm screwed. thanks ayway.