From: "Geo" 

did it recover everything?

Geo.

"Chris"  wrote in message news:42323664$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> GOOD NEWS!!!!!  If you so dumbly blow away the wrong partition on your
> computer, all is not lost.  I'm happy to promote this program called
> Active Partition.  You can get it at http://www.partition-recovery.com
> and the paid version is only $29.99 US.  I'm raving about it because oit
> just saved me a TON of reinstallation and some lost data.  It works at
> the hardware level and reads the actual sectors on the drive to
> determine the layout and the paid version will restore this information
> to your hard drive, saving your ass.
>
> Happy Friday and (I'm going to) have a great weekend!
>
> /Chris
>
>
> Chris wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I downloaded FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and burned the CD's.  So far so good. I
> > tried to install it and chose my partition, etc.  All went well until I
> > rebooted into Windows on the same computer which was installed 1st.
> >
> > My partitions look like:
> > C: == Windows partition including my profile
> > D: == Applications/Games/the bulk of my crap
> > E: == My mom's backup of her "old" system (discussed
here previously)
> >
> > I discovered that I blew away the wrong partitions and lost my D: and E:
> > drives.  My install of FreeBSD failed in that it never found the source
> > info to even format the partitions I created.  Does anyone know if there
> > is a way of recovering my system, ESPECIALLY the D:?  E: is backed up
> > onto DVD, so it's not a big loss.  My mom's computer is functioning fine
> > anyway.  This really blows that I screwed up so bad and really am not
> > looking forward to reinstalling Windows XP.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris

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