Recover Hard drive HELP!

[VampiraQula]

OOPs! I used Hdd Utility by Decline and got frustrated 'cause the phone was going off the hook, the kids were fighting, wife was bitching, hdloader wants to keep formating the drive and won't show the games I install and all of a sudden I hit "erase" and boom!!! Hdd 0 (my system drive) was gone.

Can anyone suggest how I might recover these 4 partitions and about 80g worth of files?

I removed the hdd from the pc and hooked it to another used Partition Magic to check it and it says Unallocated. But it doesn't give the option for undelete.

I would like to restore this drive in the same condition as it was before the stupid manuver but just recovering the files would suffice. If anyone can help I'd appreciate it.

[Snoop]

Wrong forum - moved to HDD discussion...

[VampiraQula]

Thanks Snoop,
If anyone was interested I have Seagate 120g, Win XP, all partitions are NTFS.

[Zero_Z]

Wow that sucks ...
if the file system was NTFS or FAT before you can use program call "Easy Recovery Pro" its not the best but will definitly do the trick (recovered my share of formated drives already). I think the lastest version is 7.XX. If you really want the program PM me and ill send it through messenger.
good luck

[VampiraQula]

Update:I did some research on this and found instructions and a few handy apps along with a free program to recover lost partitions called testdisk. With it I was able to restore all my partitions and Files. http://www.cgsecurity.org/

[Scooter]

Man somebody needs to make this a sticky!..

[blisstik]

so when it restored you HDD, were you able to boot back into Windows and everything was in tact? i would think that some files would be corrupted... well that's good for you!

[VampiraQula]

So far everything is ok nothing is corrupt. I am now in the process of installing a new drive and I am going to use Disk Copy to dupe the drive. I will let you know how it goes. I found all the info to restore partitions on this beginner sight in case ne1 runs into the same problem. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.c...id=1139&page=1 All the info I neded was here.

[alimon]

nice find

[VampiraQula]

Just an update on the HDD recovery. I coppied all partitions to a new drive after the recovery and am now running on the recovered Windows XP Pro install 4 days now with no errors or problems.