Recovering accidentally deleted partition

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Geoff

During installation of W2K on a new drive i accidentally
deleted the partion of another drive, although this does
not contain an operating system it does contain 7G of
files and folders which i would like to recover.

The Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 153973
discribes "Recovering Bootsectors of Primary Partitions"

"...You can verify this by the ASCII text on the right
hand side beginning at Offset 8B which should
read "Invalid Partition Table....".

Thid line i can see but it is not at Offset 8B, does this
mean i have a bigger problem? Is this the Boot sector?
Should there be a boot sector if there is no Bootable OS
on the drive?

Help would be appreciated

Geoff
 
Geoff said:
During installation of W2K on a new drive i accidentally
deleted the partion of another drive, although this does
not contain an operating system it does contain 7G of
files and folders which i would like to recover.

The Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 153973
discribes "Recovering Bootsectors of Primary Partitions"
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Your best bet would be to use a recovery tool such as OnTrack
EasyRecovery, which is likely to get all or most of the data back if
the partition hasn't been written to in the meantime.

--
iv< Paul >iv<
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Geoff said:
During installation of W2K on a new drive i accidentally
deleted the partion of another drive, although this does
not contain an operating system it does contain 7G of
files and folders which i would like to recover.

The Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 153973
discribes "Recovering Bootsectors of Primary Partitions"

"...You can verify this by the ASCII text on the right
hand side beginning at Offset 8B which should
read "Invalid Partition Table....".

Thid line i can see but it is not at Offset 8B, does this
mean i have a bigger problem? Is this the Boot sector?
Should there be a boot sector if there is no Bootable OS
on the drive?

Help would be appreciated
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Download the FreeDOS version of the BootMaster Rescue Disk from
the site in my signature. Boot the system with the rescue disk,
change to the drive that contains the lost partition (F10), then
create a diagnostic file (F12). Email the diag file to
(e-mail address removed). From that I can tell you exactly what is
there and what is recoverable.

Bob

Robert Green
BootMaster Partition Recovery
http://www.bootmaster.filerecovery.biz
 
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