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    Did I just lose all my data?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Ayle, Dec 19, 2010.

  1. Ayle

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    Hi, I had a hard drive with to hfs+ partitions on which that I was using on a mac. Then I decided to move that hard drive to a new computer. So I formatted the 2nd partition to exFAT in Disk Utility and copied my stuff on to it. Then I transfered that drive to the other computer, formatted the main partition to NTFS and installed Windows 7 on it. Now I boot W7 and what do I see? Only one partition even tho it's supposed to support exFAT. I want in Disk Management and saw that the partition didn't have a letter assigned to it, so I assigned one but now the partition showed up as NTFS and was completely empty.... I rebooted the computer with a livecd but even there my secondary partition shows up as ntfs and windows also wrote bootlogs on there :)confused: )... What the heck happened?
     
    Ayle, Dec 19, 2010
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  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Well the bootlog partition you're referring to is a small (~150MB) partition meant to hold boot files. But as for the missing exFAT partition, I really don't have an explanation. Can you format it as exFAT in W7 and transfer your data again?
     
    Bog, Dec 20, 2010
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  3. ScuderiaConchiglia

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    The way I read the OP, the partition that now holds W7 is the one where his data used to be before he moved the data to the exFAT partition. So, I doubt it can be done again. The place where the data was has now been overwritten.

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Dec 20, 2010
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  4. Ayle

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    Before I transferred the drives the partition scheme was like this:
    1st partition: HFS+ with osx on it. 2nd partition:exFAT with the backed up data.

    During the w7 install I erased deleted partition 1 and let w7 install in the free space created. So after the install the partition scheme should have been:
    1st partition: 100MB with the w7 recovery tools. 2nd partition NTFS with windows installed on it. 3rd partition exFAT with my backup data. But that ended up being becoming: 1st partition NTFS W7. 2nd partition NTFS recovery stuff... :mad: It is now clear that windows 7 installer didi something it was not supposed to do. There is no 150MB recovery partition, it simply decided to take over the 100GB exFAT partition and reformat it as the recovery partition. That is just stupid.
     
    Ayle, Dec 21, 2010
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    It wasn't i forgot to enable hidden files and folder, but there is a bunch of system files in it that take ~130MB.
     
    Ayle, Dec 21, 2010
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    Can you plug the drive back into the original system you used to format the drive into exFAT?
     
    StormEffect, Dec 22, 2010
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