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Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
 
As you might have guessed from the title I've encounterd a problem or two while trying to install XP on my machine.
While I don't have enough time to go into too much detail tonight, I just wanted to throw out a few feelers to see if anyone know how to recover drive space (about 15GBs) lost when the XP installer deleted a partition on my drive.

I'm also having trouble with my modem and graphics card but I'm pretty sure those are driver issues.
 
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 
Well, how do you mean "recover"? Do you just want the space, or is there data there that you want to get back?
 
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
 
1) open a DOS box or command prompt
2) enter "fdisk /mbr"
3) reboot
4) run fdisk again to re-index your drive

If that doesn't work, try your luck with:

Easy Recovery
www.ontrack.com

Norton Disk Doctor
www.norton.com

File Rescue
www.file-rescue.com

GetDataBack
www.runtime.org

Restorer
www.restorer2000.com

Fast File Undelete
www.dtidata.com

UnDelete
www.quantumsoft.co.uk

File Recover
www.filerecover.com

R-Tools
www.r-tt.com

Lost and Found
www.powerquest.com

File Restore
www.winternals.com

Disk Commander
www.winternals.com

Drive Rescue
http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/rescue

DFSee
www.fsys.demon.nl

MRecover
http://kristenonline.com/lain/cih/mrecintro.htm

Emergency Undelete
www.c2000.com

UnErase
www.filesearching.com/cgi-bin/s?q=unerase.exe&t=f&d=&l=en&x=11&y=17

Back2Life
www.simtel.net

Hard Drive Mechanic
www.highergroundsoftware.com

Zero Assumption Recovery
www.z-a-recovery.com

Happy hunting. B)

[ August 09, 2003, 04:38 PM: Message edited by: Cartmaniac ]
 
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
 
Just the space. I had the foresight to backup my data files before doing a system change so I'm not concerned about loss of data.
The thing is my HD is supposed to be 30GBs, XP insists it's only 15GBs. I can't re-insert my data unless I get that space back.
 
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
 
Not to sound crazy or anything, but you haven't got a second15 gig hard drive icon appearing in "My Computer", have you?
 
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
 
DOn'T use fdisk, it's not worth the potential trouble.

2k and XP Pro have partition management built right in. Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management.

Expand Storage, select Disk Management.

RTFM from there, though you shouldn't have to. Pretty straightforward...

Dunno about XP Home though...
 
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
 
Cheers Charles, that did it. (I have Pro)
All I need to do now is find an XP compatible driver for my modem (for those scratching their heads I've borrowed a laptop for the time being) download the XP drivers for my graphics card and spend the next three days installing all my programs. Fun!
 
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
 
What graphics card is it? Because, really, who has a card that isn't nVidia, ATI or SIS nowadays, eh? EH?

Also, and again this is crazy sounding, but didn't you run that oh-so-useful "Will XP work with all my hardware" utility?
 


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