- Retrieve deleted partition
- Posted by S on July 29th, 2006
My workplace is in migrating from Novell eDirectory to Microsoft Active
Directory and in the process, we are wiping out all PCs (to clean up Novell
debris, spyware, etc.) One user did not properly back up her files before
the old XP Professional partition was deleted and a new partition created.
XP Pro has already been re-installed on the new partition. Is there any way
or any software that can recover data from the deleted partition or bring
that partition back to life?
I have heard of this being done before on HDs that have their partitions
erased, but not when new partitions are created and an OS installed on them.
Thanks in advance
- Posted by Whiskers on July 29th, 2006
On 2006-07-29, S <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
Do nothing more with that computer [1], and contact a 'Data Recovery Service'
(try a web search - there are lots of them to choose from). Be prepared
to spend real money, and still not get back all the data.
Try not to blame the user of that computer; the fault lies with inadequate
back-up strategies at company or department level, and poor management of
what sounds like a rather risky approach to changing your systems.
[1] Don't even log off or shut down, if it's still running, and if it has
been shut down do not re-start it. Wait for expert guidance from the
specialists.
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- Posted by Toolman Tim on July 29th, 2006
S wrote:
reformating the drives to 'clean up' is foolish. What a waste of time! The
Novell client uninstall does just fine. And spyware isn't an issue with the
proper tools either. All I see is IT people without a clue.
Why was that the responsibility of the USER? Why isn't the IT department
doing this? Why wasn't the data on the SERVER in the first place? What kind
of IT people do you have - leftovers from the 1950's?
RIGHT OVER where the first one was. The new install of XP has already
over-written the same physical location on the drive that it occupied
before. It's possible that the data can be recovered by an analysis of the
physical drive, but it's quite likely that it's been over-written by now.
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