Tim! Thanks so much for the reply; *very* glad to see you chime in on this
thread! :)
If you don't mind me picking your brain for a bit (so I know for future
reference, though I do hope to never run into this situation again!), what's
your analysis of what happened exactly in terms of what exactly got
overwritten by the Win7 install?
I mean, the thing that gets me is that the system booted from the USB key
and it really was only like 30 secs or so that it had time to *do* anything,
and that it did so much in that little bit of time!
And for future reference, should I just have yanked the key out ASAP? Like
I said, I was afraid of getting things really messed up b/c it was in the
middle of writing stuff, but in retrospect, sooner seems like it would've
been better the sooner I stopped it! *sigh*
Anyway R-Studio sounds good, especially the way you can demo it and see
what's recoverable so you can figure out if it's even worth going there.
Would you say I can just use it from a bootable CD or should I remove the
drive from the laptop and connect it up to another PC in an enclosure? I
see R-Studio has emergency mode but the fact you need a hardware code is
weird and why do they have the verbiage about being able to install it only
on one PC there?
Oh and which version should I get? No problem get the $80 R-Studio, but if
all I need if the NTFS version, it'll save me $30! :P Thanks Tim! :)
BINO
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Lider
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 11:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Need MAJOR help with fubar'ed WinXP install
Hello,
I looked over TestDisk and it looks interesting. Although, I do not know if
it will fix the problem.
The problem can be recovered with either GetDataBack NTFS or R-Studio. I
would suggest trying R-Studio first, it is a much better program IMHO.
Regards,
Tim Lider
Sr. Data Recovery Specialist
Advanced Data Solutions, LLC
http://www.adv-data.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Glazier
> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 9:20 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [H] Need MAJOR help with fubar'ed WinXP install
>
> I've had good results with a freeware "TestDisk".
> Brief description:
> "Tool to check and undelete partition (FAT, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3,
> ReiserFS, BFS) under DOS, Win9x, Linux, BSD. [GNU Public License]"
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
> As with all data recovery, STOP letting ANYTHING write
> to that drive.
> This program, run from a different drive, will non destructively
> analize first, before committing ANY changes, and then only on demand.
> That basically means installing it somewhere else, or booting with
> floppies, CDs, DVDs etc.
>
> AS said below, some data might already be lost.
> WinXP and Win7 use TOTALLY different boot procedures, so you
> may be looking at data recovery "only". (IMHO.)
>
> Rick Glazier
>
> From: <tmservo@
>
> > Depends. You might find data recovery programs that will run a
> format recovery and get some back. But anything that has been
> > over-written with the new structures on the disc is toast.
> >
> > So, when was your last backup?
>
