[NefCanuck]

Aka,Jul 12 2005, 06:34 PM Wrote:First off... Thank you Windows XP Setup for ignoring me. </sarcasm>

Anyway, I was installing XP last night, had two drives in the machine, empty and backup. Selected the empty drive to install XP onto, and it goes and formats my backup. Sounds like a windows thing to do.

Anyway, since it was a quick format, I know the files are still there, I just don't know how to recover them. It's a 200 gig drive, so I figure it'll take a f**k load of time to recover, and I doubt it'll remember any of my directory structure (ugh :( all my music, so nicely organized).
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Okay, I'm assuming buying something like Norton Systemworks is out of the question for you? Only other thing I know of that might do what you want is the Windows Recovery Console. Does your computer BIOS support booting from CD/DVD drives? If it does then you should be able to access that and I think from there you can perhaps undo the damage, assuming no writing was done to the drive after the accident...

NefCanuck