Well, repartitioning and reformatting an hd isn't something you do by
accident, that takes quite a lot of knowledge, and even more are you sure
prompts. But let's just for the moment assume it was done with some
supper fast fdisk program that didn't even begin to prompt for safety
reasons, and we'll proceed on those grounds.
Now. Assuming this highly unlikely scenario actually happened, you can
probably get your data back depending on just how destructive the
partitioning/formatting was. If it formatted the partition while creating
the new one, then the data is out of reach for us mere peons of computer
systems. Although a nice machine that costs something like 100+ thousand
dollars could probably help out in this case (or a data recovery shop that
charges a couple hundred bucks an hour could do the same thing)
But let's go with the good news on this one. Some fdisk programs (such as
the one that ships with open dos) doesn't actually destroy data on the
partition when it creates a new one. If you can get into the low-level
routines of the program (in open dos this is doen with an fdisk /x) ten it
is very likely you could remove the existing partition, tell fdisk to make
a new one, but to give the partition area the flags of your choice. In
this case, the disk is not formatted again, and if you can get the
cylinder/megabyte count exact to the specs it was before, then your data
will still be there quite happily waiting for you to find it. Depending
on how badly skewed your partition is in regards to the old one, you may
need to run some recovery programs such as norton disk doctor, scandisk,
chkdsk, or something else. Hope this helps.
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