Windows destructive recovery

[jdeedler]

Heres the basics of what ive done.

Changed HP bios to a mother board bios awhile ago.

Had to recover but HP (XP) recover stopped me because of the bios change.

Tried Full recover ( before realizing ) and it did the same thing.

needless to say i never fully recovered just enough to make my HP hardrive useless at this point until i find away to change the bios back to HP version.

Where I am at now.

I changed HD's loaded win 98 se on that one.

Hooked up the HP (XP) drive as a slave.

Does not show both partitions only the HP (XP) recover partition the rest of the 115 GB is supposed to be there as another partition.

Anyhow there are a boat load of files i want on the HP drive in the user partition. nothing has been written there so the files would be there right?? even though that partition was quick formatted.

what should i run to see the entire 120 GB of info on the HP drive??

And are those files able to be saved using the WIN 98 SE to a CD??

any help would be great

[GDH]

If you have your problem drive connected to anther computer I would suggest that you first try running a "Fast Format Recover" of the physical drive. This may get your missing data back very quickly.

If it does not work, then you should next try a Complete Format Recover of the physical drive. Searching the physical drive will find any of the files in the partition that is not deleted, but it should also find the other files currently in the empty space.

I hope this helps.