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Hi,

I have landed into a big mess. I was trying to install Manadrek Linux
on my desktop that had 2 hardisks. One had WinXP(HDD1) and the other
had some Linux version(HDD2) which i wanted to remove.I disabled my XP

hard disk and installed my linux on the other one. After the
installation i realized somehow even though i had disabled my XP hard
drive Linux formatted my XP hard drive(HDD1) instead of Linux(HDD2).
Now, all my data is gone since i also used that hard drive to backup
all my data recovering the data is extreamly important.
Can someone please help me understand, is there a way to recover my
data(as linux has created partions on it) and if yes, then what are the

possible options and steps?
Any suggestions about a good data recovery software would also be
extreamly helpful.

sweet_techie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have landed into a big mess. I was trying to install Manadrek Linux
> on my desktop that had 2 hardisks. One had WinXP(HDD1) and the other
> had some Linux version(HDD2) which i wanted to remove.I disabled my XP
>
> hard disk and installed my linux on the other one. After the
> installation i realized somehow even though i had disabled my XP hard
> drive Linux formatted my XP hard drive(HDD1) instead of Linux(HDD2).
> Now, all my data is gone since i also used that hard drive to backup
> all my data recovering the data is extreamly important.
> Can someone please help me understand, is there a way to recover my
> data(as linux has created partions on it) and if yes, then what are the
>
> possible options and steps?
> Any suggestions about a good data recovery software would also be
> extreamly helpful.
>
Use something like EasyRecovery Datarecovery.
I used it last week on a drive that used to have XP+NTFS on it and had
been formatted with ME+FAT32 by the user - recovered over 3gb of data
with very few file errors.
Data is only generally lost where something new has been written over
the part of the disc where your files were, so you should have a good
chance of recovering some/all of it.

"sweet_techie" <> wrote:

|>
|>Hi,
|>
|>I have landed into a big mess. I was trying to install Manadrek Linux
|>on my desktop that had 2 hardisks. One had WinXP(HDD1) and the other
|>had some Linux version(HDD2) which i wanted to remove.I disabled my XP
|>
|>hard disk and installed my linux on the other one. After the
|>installation i realized somehow even though i had disabled my XP hard
|>drive Linux formatted my XP hard drive(HDD1) instead of Linux(HDD2).
|>Now, all my data is gone since i also used that hard drive to backup
|>all my data recovering the data is extreamly important.
|>Can someone please help me understand, is there a way to recover my
|>data(as linux has created partions on it) and if yes, then what are the
|>
|>possible options and steps?
|>Any suggestions about a good data recovery software would also be
|>extreamly helpful.


http://riccardo.raneri.it/blog/eng/i...ver-lost-data/
Shorter http://tinyurl.com/gkktj

Might check out TestDisk from the above link:
"TestDisk is a powerful data recovery utility! It was primarily
designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks
bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software,
certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing
your Partition Table)."

--
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Trax wrote:
> "sweet_techie" <> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Hi,

>>> Can someone please help me understand, is there a way to recover my
>>> data(as linux has created partions on it) and if yes, then what are
>>> the
>>>
>>> possible options and steps?
>>> Any suggestions about a good data recovery software would also be
>>> extreamly helpful.
>
>
>
http://riccardo.raneri.it/blog/eng/i...ver-lost-data/
> Shorter http://tinyurl.com/gkktj
>
> Might check out TestDisk from the above link:
> "TestDisk is a powerful data recovery utility! It was primarily
> designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks
> bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software,
> certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing
> your Partition Table)."

Thanx Trax

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