BIG problem

Deathrow

Deathrow

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Ok well here the story goes.

I took my pc to the computer shop as it kept blue screening, there verdit was reinstall windows xp.

Now I have 2 hard drives, a 40 gig one with my operating system and a 300 gig one with all my documents and music etc.

I boot up with windows xp disc, oh it asks me if I would like to repair, I thought this would seem like a good option for now rather than reinstalling everything, didnt work so I thought Ill do a fell install of windows on my 40 gig. I did this and windows is now on, however when I try and access my other hard drive with my documents on it, it is asking for a format. I never even touched the other hard drive. Now the weird things are....

Its still the same but doesnt have a (FAT) or (NTFS) only (RAW)

Secondly it has been renamed to Local disk D when before it was called new volume F.

Thirdly disk management is only detecting it as a 128gig hard drive when it is a 300 gig hard drive. Now I had roughly used about 128gig of space on it before hand.

So I need a few quesitons answering please.

1/ What has happened?

2/ Is there any way to recover my files on the 300 gig as I havent touched it.

3/ What is the best action to take?

Thank you, Scott.
 
boot with norton partition magic and see the details of the 300 gb HDD
see if there is any unallocated space
that's where you find the lost space
 
Is your 300GB a WD??? That is quite typical for them to do that. When it says that the file system is RAW it means your partition and MFT has been toasted... A WD trademark.

Anyways, yes you can recover that data. Use a program named Stellar Phoenix to recover the data onto a different drive. I just had to do it last night and it works wonderful. Awesome little program. Best $100 you'll ever spend.
 
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