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The Wyyl
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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.

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Long story short:

I messed up and accidentally started to format my hardrive with my WHOLE MP3 colection (90+ gigs) when I tried to install my copy of Windows. By doing that, the drive now shows up as unformatted or damaged and I don't know how to fix it--if there is a way at all.

So, this is a question to all you high-tech wizes out there that may know a thing or two about such problems. I would be forever in your debt.

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Apr-01-2003 00:53 Canada

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flystyler
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Aylesbury, UK

Is it the hard drive u use for windows???

Wot you might want to do is put the hard drive as a slave on another comp, and back up anything that u can save.

And then format it and instal windows

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arj1o1
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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Netherlands

maybe u could try partition magic

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pnuemo
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Registered: Nov 2000
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well, if you cancelled the format, there is a 80% chance, that everything is THRASHED. sorry dude. don't EVER do that! you can try partition magic. that would definatly be your best bet. if that doesnt work, you'll have to format the drive and reinstall your OS. sorry bro!

Apr-02-2003 02:09 United States

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Tranc3
tranceaddict in training

Registered: May 2002
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, US

I recommend Easy Recovery Pro. As you can tell by the title, it's actually pretty easy to use, and it's worked wonderfully for me in the past. Hope this helps

Apr-07-2003 06:34

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Harri
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Guelph

I have a utility that wil recover it all for u. it is just time consuming. 60 gig drive takes 3 hours to recover. If u want it, PM me. It is DOS based so u need to have a booteable DOS Disk. I can E-mail the util is u want it.

Apr-08-2003 02:45 Canada

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jon
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Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Leeds

how long was it formating for? and is the drive partitioned tfs or fat32? try to avoide using the drive much in random hopes to get the data back, only use it when you are trying a idea

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