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ooo nooo HDDD erased !!

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jb03952

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Im running Win XP NTFS file system with C: as 5 gig windows drive which I dont keep anything personal or important on and always reformat when I doa fresh install of windoes , and D: as my data drive with all my saved important files . I had the win drive as primary master , cd burner as primary slave , dvd drive as secondary master and data hdd as secondary slave , everything worked fine . Well I got a new cd burner and tried to put it where the old burner was (seconday slave on the same channel as the win drive) but then windows wouldnt boot , i got a message saying invalid boot drive or something i guess the new burner was interfering with the HD somehow . so I decided to switch the positions of the burner and dvd drive , i was having some problems for the bios recognizing all the drives properly so I tried moving the jumper on the factory reserved pins on the burner which was then on the same channel as the data hdd , i think that jumper might have reset the burner and data drive , either that or it coulda been when I touched the underside of my data drive I felt a small shock .

So my problem is windows now sees the data drive as unpartitioned and empty . Is there any way I can recover the files ? I dont think any recovery program would work on it when windows sees it as unpartitioned but I imagine I could do a quick (not full) format and then I might be able to recover them . Someone please help .
 
I downloaded and installed Ontrack EasyREcovery and it identified all the files on the drive so Im very optomistis about getting all my files back , I didnt even have to partition it first . But It wont recover them for me unless its registered which is quite pricey . Anyone know a good program thats free or at least has a trial period where you can actually recover the files not just have them identified ?
 
OK, u may want to try this:
Uninstall any drivers and applications that came with the new CD burner.
Unplug the DVD drive and the burner.
Put both hard drives on the same primary IDE channel (I made an assumption that they are all IDE because you are talking about master-slave) so that your OS drive is a master and the data drive is a slave.
Set BIOS to disable the second IDE channel and to autoconfigure the hard drives
Boot and see if you can now access your data on the data HD.
 
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