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Re: Anyone know how to recover lost partitions?
Roges--
Maybe I'm misreading, but I thought this was more of a lost data recovery
than simply repairing XP. Bart's PE is excellent, but if simply repairing
XP would do the job, I'd do a repair install booting from the XP CD if
Bernie has one.
CH
"Roges Hyspeed Internot Slurport" <Internet.support@rogered.you.com> wrote
in message news:uAUTBTatGHA.2260@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
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> "Bernie" <bernie@nospam.org> wrote in message
> news:uPHJPPatGHA.4748@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>I have all the most important data backed up. But I have a huge number of
>>downloads (utilities and lots of other stuff) that would take a long time
>>to replace. It is worth it to me to spend some hours and even some money
>>not to have to replace those things. So...
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>> I had four partitions; XP, Vista, Linux and a Linux swap. The XP
>> partition is the important one.
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>> So I can see there are sites promising partition recovery software for a
>> fee. I don't mind a smallish fee but I want to know what works and what
>> doesn't first.
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>> So anyone out there good at data recovery?
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>> More data: I have another drive in the machine with a lot of free space
>> but it is also my data drive. It is okay but doesn't have an O/S on it.
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>> There isn't a working O/S on the main drive and it is the main drive that
>> I want to recover. So the ideal solution is something that can work from
>> a bootable CD.
> Have you tried "Barts PE" or any of the similar bootable roms ?
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