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just installed xp how do i get my old files

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bluey

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I finally got xp to work and during the install it said it had to format the drive and the only option was ntfs which i thought was bad but I went ahead because there was no other option. Before all this i put my files that i needed on my d: drive and now in XP when I click on it xp tells me nothing is there, but i know i put them on there, are they lost forever? Hope not. Thanks
 
Is D: drive a separate slave drive or a partition? How did you do the copying? Is D:\ FAT 32 or NTFS?
 
D: is a seperate drive of teh fat32 variety. I just copy and pasted the files i needed from my c: before I reformated C:
 
Probably gone. Sometimes XP doesn't recognize a drive right away and you need to go into Computer Management and enable the drive, but if its showing up in my computer correctly, with the drive size correct, and its saying its all free, you lost it all.

I don't know what caused it, but XP did this to me once. I have reinstalled windows by formating just one drive many times just fine, but this last time it decided to format both drives. I think my reason is that it decided to switch D to C, so when I installed windows to D, it put boot information on C and formatted it anyways.
 
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