Easy way to un-clean a disk?

[Magic Carpet]

I accidentally "cleaned" the wrong drive using the diskpart command in Windows XP SP3. Didn't go past the clean command, though. Is there a quick way to restore it?

 

[Magic Carpet]

testdisk has just recovered the table. Now, that was quick.

What's interesting is that Windows XP was able to boot up and function correctly... even though, the program/common files & user data folders have been physically on the "cleaned" disk (no symlinks). It did not stall at the log-on prompt. Really amazing.

I only had to change ProfileImagePath in registry to get my profile back (it had added a suffix upon recovering, so everything was messed up).

Thanks goes to ViRGE for mentioning testdisk in search queries :thumbsup:

 

[ViRGE]

Thanks goes to ViRGE for mentioning testdisk in search queries :thumbsup:

Haha, I just saw this thread and was about to write something about testdisk when I saw your second post. Glad to be of service.