Hello
I need somebody to help me recover my data from a backup.

The problem is this:

Before installing Windows 2000, I made two partitions on my hard drive
A primary partition "C:"in which I installed the opearting system
And a logical "extended" partition"D:" in which I saved all my data.
The problem occurred when some weeks later, I had problems with my
Windows, so I had to install it again, but before doing that I formatted
My primary partition "C:" and then I installed Windows again.
Later, when I tried to look my information in the other partition "D:" a dialog box appears telling me that I have to format that drive "D:"
I'm sure the information is still there. I don't know how to recover it. :( :(

Please I would really appreciate any help. :p :p

The second time you rebuilt your C: drive did you format to FAT32 or NTFS.
Also what file system is your D: drive using, as FAT32 drives cannot read from an NTFS drive.
All is not lost though as you can convert a FAT32 drive to NTFS.
Here (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/convertfat.mspx) is an excellent article that covers just that.

Hope this helps.

Without knowing what steps you took to format you C Drive, its hard to say what happened. But it appears that you did something that affected your D partition as well. If that's the case, the data on D may be gone.

Both partions were done on NTFS format.
And in other occasions I always have followed the same steps to make the partitions.
So, I know the files are still there because I used a demo program to recover data but I couldn´t get the bigger ones because the demo only recovers files of 64kb or less.

Therefore, I was wondering if you know a site where I can find a free software to recover data but not a demo. :confused:

Thanks for your help :)

Give this one a try, I'm not sure if there are any restrictions or not, but I remember having some joy with it a while back!


http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/File_Maintenance_and_Repair_Utilities/Handy_Recovery_Download.html

Try zero Assumption, so far it's been the best at finding old files and folders on a drive that has even been quick formatted, this demo allows up to 4 folders per session to be copied, it just lists all the folders you lost, it's an excellent program.:cool: