Help needed please...
I hava a problem... Like every average computerperson I do my setups at night... Well last night at 4am I was building a dualboot system on my laptop. The only thing was I still had my EXTERNAL MAXTOR 250gig Harddrive attached with Firewire... So I saw my just newly partitioned D: Drive and started deleting the old partition en created a new one... after that I tried to install Windows but I gave the error that It couldn't be installed on a External drive... Because it was very late and I wasn't paying attention I again deleted the partition and created a new one... Again the same error... At that moment a bell began to ring (in my head) and I saw that I had MESSED UP my external harddrive... I never formatted it... I just left it de way is was... So I only deleted and created a partition twice on my EXTERNAL HDD...
Now I check on recovering it with ontrack Easy Recovery Pro and Active Partition recovery but nothing happend... Active recovery cannot see my external harddrive... and Ontrack cannot recover anything...
can somebody please help me out... I called a few Recovery companies and they charge from 300 to 1750 Euro's Well thats way over my budget...
If anyone can tell me wich programs I should use or where I can buy them I really would appreciate any help... It's all my personal stuff stored there and I would like to retrieve it...
Thx for reading my toppic...
Regards,
Recap:
- External Maxtor 250gig Harddrive
- Deleted and created a partition twice in Windows XP setup
- No formatting was done
- NTFS was the previous file system
- Tried Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro and it couldn't find anything
I hava a problem... Like every average computerperson I do my setups at night... Well last night at 4am I was building a dualboot system on my laptop. The only thing was I still had my EXTERNAL MAXTOR 250gig Harddrive attached with Firewire... So I saw my just newly partitioned D: Drive and started deleting the old partition en created a new one... after that I tried to install Windows but I gave the error that It couldn't be installed on a External drive... Because it was very late and I wasn't paying attention I again deleted the partition and created a new one... Again the same error... At that moment a bell began to ring (in my head) and I saw that I had MESSED UP my external harddrive... I never formatted it... I just left it de way is was... So I only deleted and created a partition twice on my EXTERNAL HDD...
Now I check on recovering it with ontrack Easy Recovery Pro and Active Partition recovery but nothing happend... Active recovery cannot see my external harddrive... and Ontrack cannot recover anything...
can somebody please help me out... I called a few Recovery companies and they charge from 300 to 1750 Euro's Well thats way over my budget...
If anyone can tell me wich programs I should use or where I can buy them I really would appreciate any help... It's all my personal stuff stored there and I would like to retrieve it...
Thx for reading my toppic...
Regards,
Recap:
- External Maxtor 250gig Harddrive
- Deleted and created a partition twice in Windows XP setup
- No formatting was done
- NTFS was the previous file system
- Tried Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro and it couldn't find anything