Vista - Partition "gone" after install vista home premium

I have a 250GB HDD. C: drive 50GB, D: drive 60GB and the rest goes to E: drive.
Previously install Vista Ultimate RC1 on my C: drive. I Bought a vista Home
Premium last nite and do a new installation over my C: to replace RC1.

After installation, although my D: and E: drives are still there, but the
data isnt. When I click on D: or E:, it shows "The disk in drive D is not
fomatted. Do you want to fomat it now."

During the installing, I did not delete or format any partition. The data in
D: is important. How do I get it back? Please Help!!!
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computer idiot

While this isn't exactly what you want to hear, I noticed when I installed my Windows Home Premium over Ultimate RC2, that the list of drives to install to changed order after I selected the one I wanted and I also wound up formatting D: instead of C:
I lost all my music and photos as well as email etc.
There wasn't any way to get it back.
With any luck, you will have some of that stuff backed up on CDs or DVDs.

I wonder if anyone brought that to Microsoft's attention?

Hi

Thats sounds very strange. All I can suggest really without risking the data
on the drives if its still there is to, remove the whole drive out of your
computer. Connect it to another computer, perhaps an XP client and check to
see if you can see drives and the data. If you get the same message then the
partition MBR have probably been destroyed.

In that case perhaps do a quick format on one of the drives with the same
File System and use a Data Recover application from the Internet to try and
recover your data that way. If it works repeat this on the other partition.

Hope that helps.
--
Shehbaz Afzal, MCP Windows XP


"noob" wrote:

> I have a 250GB HDD. C: drive 50GB, D: drive 60GB and the rest goes to E: drive.
> Previously install Vista Ultimate RC1 on my C: drive. I Bought a vista Home
> Premium last nite and do a new installation over my C: to replace RC1.
>
> After installation, although my D: and E: drives are still there, but the
> data isnt. When I click on D: or E:, it shows "The disk in drive D is not
> fomatted. Do you want to fomat it now."
>
> During the installing, I did not delete or format any partition. The data in
> D: is important. How do I get it back? Please Help!!!
> --
> computer idiot

Thanks, vista really causing me headache... I choose to go back to XP.
Great Help!!!
--
computer idiot


"Shehbaz Afzal" wrote:

> Hi
>
> Thats sounds very strange. All I can suggest really without risking the data
> on the drives if its still there is to, remove the whole drive out of your
> computer. Connect it to another computer, perhaps an XP client and check to
> see if you can see drives and the data. If you get the same message then the
> partition MBR have probably been destroyed.
>
> In that case perhaps do a quick format on one of the drives with the same
> File System and use a Data Recover application from the Internet to try and
> recover your data that way. If it works repeat this on the other partition.
>
> Hope that helps.
> --
> Shehbaz Afzal, MCP Windows XP
>
>
> "noob" wrote:
>
> > I have a 250GB HDD. C: drive 50GB, D: drive 60GB and the rest goes to E: drive.
> > Previously install Vista Ultimate RC1 on my C: drive. I Bought a vista Home
> > Premium last nite and do a new installation over my C: to replace RC1.
> >
> > After installation, although my D: and E: drives are still there, but the
> > data isnt. When I click on D: or E:, it shows "The disk in drive D is not
> > fomatted. Do you want to fomat it now."
> >
> > During the installing, I did not delete or format any partition. The data in
> > D: is important. How do I get it back? Please Help!!!
> > --
> > computer idiot