Ok I screwed up last night and need some help! Long story short I put a new HD in my Dell to reinstall XP. Old HD is filled up. I put both HD's in together and booted to the CD. Even though I set up the old HD as slave it still read as C: I didn't see this until it was to late. The new drive was labeled F: I started a format of what I thought was the new drive when it ended up being the old! The ticker got to 2%. I stopped the formatting and unplugged the old HD to install XP on the new drive. When I got everything up and running I can not see any data from the old drive. I had 3 partitions. C, D, and E. I can only see the old HD as F. If I try to access it XP askes me to format it. I'm assuming I damaged the MBR, and possibly the partition table. What's the best way to fix the old HD so I can see the partitions to get all my data off of it? What I've tried is to go into the recovery console and ran fixmbr, and fixboot, but it didn't help. I've tried undelete plus and it too asked me to format. I'm scanning now with GetDataBack, but I don't know what this is going to tell me. Any help/advise would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Only a low-level format will really wipe out data, and even that is not 100% certain. (DoD, NSA wipes will though.)

Chance are that software such as getdataback, or R-studio should make short work of this problem, and you will have your data back in no time. If you can, i do recommend imaging the drive first, to another drive, and working with the duplicate copy, so if you make any mistakes all is not lost.

hello,
you should stop to do anythings & send to pro

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A hard disk is able to read and write, not delete. data loss only occurs if you write new data over the top of old data. You should not do anything more with the disk and either send to a pro or access as a secondary disk ensuring NO CHANGES are made, or additional information written.

Though its logical case, but send to pro.

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