[sweetdude200]

Here is my problem.

I had windows 2000 Server on my PC and I had one disk (40 Gig) which was partitioned into 2 drives. C drive had the OS and D drive had personal files.
I had some problem with the USB drivers so thought of installing windows XP to try to fix the problem. I inserted the windows XP CD and it said do I want to format the drive and proceed. At this moment I thought that this will format only my C drive and not the D drive and said yes. It din't really format the drive immediately rater re-booted the machine immediately. Once the machine came backup it copied few installation files and came back to the menu where it showed I had just one drive and it had 40 Gig free, my D drive was gone.

Now how do I recover the files on my D drive? All I can see now is the C Drive with few setup files copeid to it. Now I have no OS on my PC and I need the files on D drive back.

Please help. sweetdude2000 at yahoo dot com

 

[Paiser]

okay installin xp is easy.

IF you dont have ANY OS right now then OF COURSE YOUR D IS GONE! Install xp again in what ever drive you want
Then, finish installin the xp then everything should be back to normal... If not then you lost your precious data. Which im pretty sure that will not happen since. A driver just dont disappear like that. Nothin really can destroy a formatted drive by what ever program you used to create the drive, exept for nuke the drive. Which I hope you didnt done that. Well, Install finish Install your OS and it should be back to normal

 

[LONGHAIR]

Do you have any kind of back-up for your data?
or an imaging program like "ghost"?