Secondary partition lost after XP Pro reinstall?

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Stephen Thompson

I installed a new motherboard and needed to reinstall Win XP to update it
for the new hardware. (I installed a new copy of XP accidentally, then did
a repair on my old install as I should have done to start with.)

One of my hard drives had two partitions. After the repair install, the
primary partition is fine, but the secondary partition isn't. It had a lot
of files on it, but now Disk Management reports that it's empty and
unformatted. If I look at properties for the partition, the file system is
listed as "RAW" instead of NTFS as it was before.

Are my files lost, or is there a way to get them back?
 
Jupiter!

Seeing as how quite a few people have reported this condition over the past
2 1/2 years (it happened to me also) has "anyone" ever found out WHY it
happens. Or, is this one major bug that no one seems to have ever addressed?

I lost 7 out of 8 partitions on 4 hard drives, 2 years ago, in the blink of
an eye. It occurred during shutdown, which usually takes about 10-20
seconds. On this fateful day, shutdown occurred in less than 1 second.
Everything was gone!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
Sorry Richard, in answer to your question, I have no idea.

As for the cause in other situations, in some cases it is a mistake
caused by the user clicking the wrong key at the wrong time.
Whether that is the cause 95% of the time or 5% of the time I also do
not know.
The reality is probably somewhere in the middle.

Sorry I could not give you any real answer to your question.
 
I guess I'm just blowing steam. It seems to have happened enough, and is of
such severity, that I was hoping that Microsoft was addressing the problem
(-:

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
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