Reformatting "whitebluff" <sugarcreekranch[ at ]hotmail.com> 7/8/2007 12:28:55 PM I am running XP home edition and accidentally reformatted my "D" drive which has all the recovery info. Is there anyway I can get this info back? Thanks

Re: Reformatting "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" <franksaunders[ at ]mvps.org> 7/8/2007 1:26:38 PM "whitebluff" <sugarcreekranch[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eHaiHuVwHHA.484[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I am running XP home edition and accidentally reformatted my "D" drive >which has all the recovery info. Is there anyway I can get this info back? > > Thanks > Contact the manufacturer of the computer. -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM Do not send mail.

Re: Reformatting Malke <notreally[ at ]invalid.invalid> 7/8/2007 1:34:49 PM whitebluff wrote: [Quoted Text] > I am running XP home edition and accidentally reformatted my "D" drive which > has all the recovery info. Is there anyway I can get this info back? > > Thanks > > You might be able to do this with data recovery software. Or just contact the computer mftr. and get physical recovery disks instead. Usually these recovery disks are not very expensive and are better to have anyway because if your hard drive dies you won't be able to use the recovery image on the D: partition in any case. http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html PCInspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/welcome.htm Executive Software “Undelete” - http://www.execsoft.com/undelete/undelete.asp R-Studio - http://www.r-tt.com/ File Scavenger - http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm Ontrack's EasyRecovery - http://www.ontrack.com/software/ Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Re: Reformatting "whitebluff" <sugarcreekranch[ at ]hotmail.com> 7/8/2007 2:55:31 PM I do have a recovery disk, but didn't know if it would restore everything that was on the D drive. Everything is working still so didn't really want to restore my system totally back to original. Just wondered if anything on the recovery disk would restore what was on D drive only. I have contacted Gateway but tech I talked to wasn't real sure what would happen. Hope that made sense.

Re: Reformatting "RalfG" <itsnotme[ at ]bin-wieder-da.de> 7/8/2007 4:50:16 PM If you have a spare harddrive that you can use to test the recovery discs on you could get a definitive answer. My HP recovery hasn't got an option to restore just the recovery partition. When I lost access to the partition after removing a dual-boot Vista RC1 installation, a standard recovery (non-destructive) did restore normal access to the recovery partion. In that case the files were still present on the partition but the boot options to access the recovery partition had been removed or corrupted. "whitebluff" <sugarcreekranch[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OSiQFAXwHHA.4572[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I do have a recovery disk, but didn't know if it would restore everything >that was on the D drive. Everything is working still so didn't really want >to restore my system totally back to original. Just wondered if anything >on the recovery disk would restore what was on D drive only. I have >contacted Gateway but tech I talked to wasn't real sure what would happen. >Hope that made sense. > > >

Re: Reformatting "whitebluff" <sugarcreekranch[ at ]hotmail.com> 7/9/2007 10:57:20 AM Thanks much to all for the info