I really screwed up...need to recover windows
I brought my work machine home to install Suse onto a second drive. By mistake, I installed over my windows files...I think...and now I can't access my windows work files. I'm sure I'm going to be really screwed, but is there anything I can do to recover my windows files? Under my media folder I have a windows/C folder. I click on it and it says I can't open it. I also have a Windows folder which links to my 2nd hard drive, which is where I thought it was going to install into. I've done what I tried to accomplish with my home machine, I guess the kids screaming threw me off. Here's the strainge part. I had 7.3 on there already setup on dual boot. My windows partition was hda and my linux was hdb. I think I'm still booting off hdb. Is this a good sign? Tom
Tom Nielsen wrote:
I brought my work machine home to install Suse onto a second drive. By mistake, I installed over my windows files...I think...and now I can't access my windows work files. I'm sure I'm going to be really screwed, but is there anything I can do to recover my windows files?
Under my media folder I have a windows/C folder. I click on it and it says I can't open it. I also have a Windows folder which links to my 2nd hard drive, which is where I thought it was going to install into.
I've done what I tried to accomplish with my home machine, I guess the kids screaming threw me off. Here's the strainge part. I had 7.3 on there already setup on dual boot. My windows partition was hda and my linux was hdb. I think I'm still booting off hdb. Is this a good sign?
Tom
Maybe. It all depends on what happened. If you did actually install over the windows files, then say goodbye to them. You will not be able to recover them because they don't exist anymore. If you just formated the drive and did not write anything to it, then there might be a chance of recovering them. You will need software that will read the tracks and sections in order to re-construct the files. The older Norton software could do this, I don't know about the newer ones. Haven't used that kind of software since I switched to Linux. There is another chance, which I would do as a last resort. Reinstall windows in the same partition. Make the same directors as before and hope that the missing files show up. This will only work (sometimes) if you have not written anything to that partition. Best of luck. Nevada -- Linux the OS of now and the future. Using SuSE Linux.
Got it. Anders helped me out. Turns out the drive was fully intact. I just needed to create a mount point. Silly me. I'm going to go get hammered now. Too much stress! Tom On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 23:06, Tom Nielsen wrote: I brought my work machine home to install Suse onto a second drive. By mistake, I installed over my windows files...I think...and now I can't access my windows work files. I'm sure I'm going to be really screwed, but is there anything I can do to recover my windows files? Under my media folder I have a windows/C folder. I click on it and it says I can't open it. I also have a Windows folder which links to my 2nd hard drive, which is where I thought it was going to install into. I've done what I tried to accomplish with my home machine, I guess the kids screaming threw me off. Here's the strainge part. I had 7.3 on there already setup on dual boot. My windows partition was hda and my linux was hdb. I think I'm still booting off hdb. Is this a good sign? Tom
participants (3)
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Anders Johansson
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P.T. (nevada)
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Tom Nielsen