OMG! I'm so stupid! HELP!

[DragonFire]

I am so stupid, I will admit it!

I decided to install Windows 64bit....
So I see my C drive and my D drive, I go and delete the c drives partition and then realized it deleted the partition on the wrong drive! I forgot during setup Windows see IDE drives first over SATA even if the SATA drive is the bootdrive.

So XP's setup deleted the partition, formatted it and even copied its files to it all ready, I stopped using the drive as soon as my computer rebooted. Iv tried two recovery programs already and all they show is whats on the drive now.

Is it just impossible to get back the old partition now that files have placed on the new one? Is there anything I can try?

 

[Matthias99]

So XP's setup deleted the partition, formatted it and even copied its files to it all ready, I stopped using the drive as soon as my computer rebooted. Iv tried two recovery programs already and all they show is whats on the drive now.

Is it just impossible to get back the old partition now that files have placed on the new one? Is there anything I can try?

Wow, that's pretty dumb. I mean, unfortunate.

If you did a full format, your data is *gone*. If you did a quick format, some of it might still be there, but if a recovery program's not seeing it, it's probably been overwritten. You can search for other data recovery threads... there might be some other programs out there that would do a more thorough job than whatever it is you used (which you didn't mention).

 

[boran]

it's never gone, unless you write zeroes, anyways try if R-studio can see the partitions (it's not free, but your data has got to be worth something to you)
I used it to recover all my data after a bad ghost operation (a disk restore overwrites all other partitions over that disk)

 

[Matt155]

If you ever recover from this situation, plz use back up program to image your c drive partition so you can restore it anytime. Once you make that image, save it on another drive or dvd disk. I don't understand why we have so many experienced users not backing up the main partions and running into these problems.

Oh I just reread your post. so its not your operating system partition you deleted, just data.
You can try Spinrite 6.