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***Hard Disk Crash Grave Situation ****

4 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/hard-disk-crash-grave-situation.59090/

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soumendra Original post #1
May 30, 2007 at 3:08 PM
I have a SATA HDD in which my OS is loaded and another IDE HDD for normal data storage.

Now last week when i was reinstalling my OS (XP),everything worked fine , except that the other IDE HDD is now asking to be formatted .

Now the IDE HDD was having data of 320 GB :(

Please help me recover from this issue ..

I had some of my most important .pst files in that !!

all possible help is appreciated ..

rgds
som
ECE0105
ECE0105 #2
May 30, 2007 at 7:35 PM
The important thing is, did u format the HDD, either during the Installation of Win XP or after that?

Incase you did format it, try some tools like Handy Recovery to recover the files.

But note, the Trial version of Handyrecovery 3.0 can recover only 1 file per day, but it shows every directory structure like in Windows Explorer, unlike other apps...
S
Jun 1, 2007 at 10:03 AM
Hi thanks for replying ...

the naswers to your qs :

i did not format the HDD either during installing the OS or after that when prompted for ..

And i do have a good recovery software Active2 UNDELTE with a license so
no issues ...

But what step sud i take ..

If you can help me from here it will be nice ..

rgds
som
NucleusKore
Jun 1, 2007 at 10:41 PM
I am wondering if you formatted the wrong drive