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Re-Installed Windows, now a 200gb drive is missing!
SirPoonga:
what do you mean recovering it? where does it put the files?
JoyMonkey:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on May 06, 2005, 12:40:58 pm ---what do you mean recovering it? where does it put the files?
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From what I understand, all the files on the drive are in-tact, but somehow Windows isn't recognising its partition table so it can't read them directly. GetDataBack is able to look at the drive and get a list of all the files, then it lets you 'recover' whatever files and folders you want onto another hard drive.
I believe that it works by some kind of pixie magic, but I don't know a whole lot about these things.
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on May 06, 2005, 02:04:27 pm ---some kind of pixie magic
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Because when you delete a file or such you aren't physically deleting it from the magnetic disk, you are more just deleting the pointers to it. So the magnetic patterns of the file are still on your hard drive, just the drive isn't keeping track of where it is at. Of course, you cna only recover the file if a new file hasn't over wrote part of the physical location of the old file.
If you truely want to delete something forever use a tool like this.
http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/
daywane:
I do not have a drive that is that large.
so maybe it is a windows issue but .... not 100% sure.
I have many PC's here at my house. ( I build one , I build a better one, etc..
kinda stuck in a loop here ;))
all new PCs ( first time running I do have to format 2ND hard drive)
( windows does all the bios settings for me)
I have 3 drives in this PC now. I can and most likely will format this weekend
Windows will see the 3 drives again. Has before. also I can yank a hard drive and toss in any other PC here and windows will see it.
Mine are IEEE drives. Wonder if that is the issue or eather your bios is set up wrong.
I did not know XP had such a small drive limit? 80 gigs is my bigest. 60 is my next. all others are 40 gig ( wait .. I forgot a 2 gig I just set up)
JoyMonkey:
I don't think Windows has 'limits' to hard drive sizes anymore, rather the way it handles drives over 135gb is completely half-assed.