Hi Greg,
On Friday 20 August 2004 11:20, Greg Wallace wrote:
I was attempting to re-formatting a usb disk drive. It was completely formatted as NTFS and I wanted to make it partially "fat". I wanted split it in two and give half to my Linux machine. It has a capacity of 250 GB, so that would be 125 GB for each machine. Considering that I'm only using 28 GB out of 80 on my Windows machine and less than that on my Linux machine, I figured I could afford to take 125 GB away from Windows without it going into a panic (har har). So, on my Windows machine, I went into Disk Management to delete the current partition (I'd moved everything off that I needed to keep). Well, rather than simply deleting the data partition I cut a just a liiiitle too deep and deleted everything, MBR and all!! What an idiot!! I would have sworn I had only the right box on
graphical image selected when I did the delete, but obviously not. Once that happened, the entire drive disappeared from Disk Management. Windows still sees the device out there but that's about it. How can I format another header onto this guy so I can use it again? Is there a tool in Windows XP for that? This happened on top of my losing my Linux
On Friday, August 20, 2004 2:53 AM, Clive Rogers wrote the partition,
so you might say I'm not having a very good week. Any help greatly appreciated.
Yours truly, Greg Wallace
I don't know of any apps in SuSE that will help but I have used data recovery software like this before. The one I used was from Ontrack called Easy Recovery and it brought everything back.
Hope this helps.
-- Clive,
Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26:31N 01:27:48W
Thanks. I'd definitely like to have a tool like that. Do they have both a Windows version (not likely I'll be doing any disk recovery on Linux, at least I sure hope not). Is this something you can purchase over the Web and get via a download? Yours truly, Greg Wallace