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    Failure to boot from hard drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by henry20us, Feb 27, 2007.

  1. henry20us

    henry20us Newbie

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    I'll try to summarize the events leading up to my problem as best I can.

    I have two hard drives. I tried installing Windows Vista Business on the first one to use in a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP which was on the second hard drive. Well, the Vista installation worked fine, but when I went to boot into XP, I found Vista's boot loader hadn't recognized Windows XP. Clearly frustrated, I tried several different things until I finally decided to format the first hard drive. It was horrible I lost my entire data from the Hard drive. Vista made my data vanish. I hate it. I tried using repair tool and many recovery software, but it did not work. Please help me out.
     
    henry20us, Feb 27, 2007
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  2. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    Umm, when you format ur drive, you lose ALL ur data. Vista didnt vanish ur data, YOU did by formatting the drive.

    That's like donating money to charity, and then saying that the charity stole your money...

    What recovery tools did u try to use to restore ur drive back so we can help u with that.
     
    adinu, Feb 27, 2007
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  3. scott_2k

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    I know Vista doesn’t install itself easily. Something must have happened, that’s for sure. What software you have used to recover your data? One of the data recovery software I know is Salvage Data recovery Software for windows. My friend used the software and got his data back. Few days back I tried to recover the data of my office system, which I lost accidentally while formatting and it worked well. Try with their software. I think their site name is salvage data.
    All the best.
     
    scott_2k, Feb 28, 2007
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