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[The Green Bean]

Fo some odd reason the whole of my D:/ drive got deleted....I never did anything, except turning the computer on and off.

There is no partition in my computer and all space is assinged to C:/

I had recently turned off my NAT router. Could this have anything to do with hacking??

I had some important data on it and is extrememly urgent that I recover my data. Any software that will do it?

 

[casper114]

Did the drive have an os installed on it? Was it just space? Is the drive still being detected in windows?

 

[The Green Bean]

yes Windows is still installed on C:/ ....C: now has 70GB of free data with windows and program files....

All of my D:/ space has been repartitioned to C:/

It is one disk of 80gigs.

 

[Tostada]

Your statements don't make any sense.

Originally posted by: hatim
Fo some odd reason the whole of my D:/ drive got deleted....I never did anything, except turning the computer on and off.

This implies that you have a C: drive and a D: drive, and that the D: drive used to have stuff on it but is now empty. Deleted means that data went away but the drive still exists.

There is no partition in my computer and all space is assinged to C:/

This implies that you never had a D: drive to begin with, so what exactly got deleted? The partition comment makes no sense no matter what. You need to have at least one partition on each drive.

 

[Tostada]

Originally posted by: hatim
yes Windows is still installed on C:/ ....C: now has 70GB of free data with windows and program files....

All of my D:/ space has been repartitioned to C:/

It is one disk of 80gigs.

So, you have one 80GB drive, and you used to have it partitioned into say a 40GB C: drive (with 10GB used) and a 40GB D: drive (with or without data), and then out of nowhere, you turned your computer off and back on, and now you have a single 80GB C: drive partition, and Windows still works fine?

That's very strange, indeed.

 

[casper114]

So you have a spanned partition across both drives?

 

[bluemax]

Someone go and use PartitionMagic while you weren't looking?

Why only a 10GB partition for Windows and 70GB for other stuff??

 

[casper114]

You don't have to use third party tools to do that in windows. You can just use the manage disk console

 

[theMan]

do you still have all your data from the d: drive in your c: drive? or is it gone?

 

[The Green Bean]

everythings gone ...

 

[Brian23]

hand over your man card.

 

[theMan]

time to take it to a data recovery place

 

[TankGuys]

Originally posted by: hatim
Fo some odd reason the whole of my D:/ drive got deleted....I never did anything, except turning the computer on and off.

There is no partition in my computer and all space is assinged to C:/

I had recently turned off my NAT router. Could this have anything to do with hacking??

I had some important data on it and is extrememly urgent that I recover my data. Any software that will do it?

Before you go and spend $50,000,000,000,000 on a data recovery service, do a quick search online. There are actually a good number of shareware data recovery programs that might be able to rescue data off your drive, even if the partition record has been lost. So long as you haven't written over that data, it should still be there!

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

You have a pretty high overclock. Any chance the hard-drive is going belly up due to the overclock? What SATA (if it is a SATA drive) ports do you have the hard-drive on? Have you tried a repair on XP?

 

[bluemax]

Good point! If your data is so mission-critical you'd go to a data recovery service, you should not be overclocking and you should be backing up your data!

BAD! BAD! BAD! Go to your room, young man - and think about what you've done!

 

[casper114]

LOL, that's right....

 

[Sqube]

So I take it he had 2 partitions on one drive, and somehow managed to disappear it?

That sucks. Try to find some programs online that can recover your work. Most importantly, save as little as possible. Everything you save from here on out could potentially overwrite something that you're trying to recover.