Hard disk data recovery........?

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i have to hard disk in my pc.
Samsung 80 GB- 2 partition all 40 gb
Samsung 250 GB-4 partition all 40gb.

I have old model MSI mother board with amd 2800 athlon processor. During boot up some misunderstand the RAID array enabled and the HARD Disk fully erased and showing unpartitioned.

Now how can i recovery my data. I had never format the hard disk bcoz of loss data by partitioning it.

so can any body tell me. by which tool i formate my harddisk and which software i use to recovery my data.
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dude u luk 2 to wrried abt ur data ...
if i understood your problem properly then
.jst get any bootable os cd or dvd n boot from it....then do a quick format( not deep,u have btr chance of gtting some data back) install the OS... then install a software called format file recovery...search using it.... i hope u'll get some data back( not fully though)

I expeirenced same prob
after trying many software
I found "Nucleus Data Recovery" the best, use its Advance Scan option

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Thanks my frinds 4 suggesting the solution.i'll try both of solution. I just worried abt my Pictures which are almost 4-5 gb. Hope it'll come back.

Thanks again.

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yeah by my xperience i wud say that u should be able to get back a lot of pics..

@test1234xyz

first don't format the drive!!.
and also don't put any data to that partition as this may overwrite the sectors!,
as this reduces the probability of recovering data..

first try with data recovery software's.. like easy recovery professional,active partition recovery,recover4all,etc...

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but my hard disk showing un-partitioned so i have to format the harddisk. to load os and then recovery software. is there any other way to recover the data without formating it and without making any partiontion.

i dont want to looose my data. :cry:

then use any bootable live cd.. and try..

i use hiren's boot cd

test1234xyz said:
Samsung 250 GB-4 partition all 40gb.

What about the remaining 72 GB?

If You had the data in the 250 GB HDD, then you can install the OS on the 80 GB HDD. I don't if it is identifiable during OS installation. If not, you can remove the 250 GB one and then install the OS. you could also try plugging in the hard drive in some other computer and then try the data recovery as that woul prevent overwriting due to OS & Software installation.