Unallocatted Harddrive

philo wrote:
"Maggy" wrote in message
...
Hello Paul, Let me explain further in more detail. (and thanks for the
reply)

I bought this new off the shelf computer, a HP. That was my first mistake,
Why? because they don't come with driver/chipset disks! (no disks at all)
Having said that I must say that HP help and Support by phone is first
class.

It came bundled with pre-installed software mainly trial stuff I didn't
really want.
My biggest problem is that it also came with Vista Premium installed. I
tried to give Vista a chance but in the end I just got sick and tired of
all
the permissions. Can't do this, can't do that, permission required, you
don't have permision etc,etc...

So, I tried reinstalling my XP os, Second mistake! No Chipset.
This is when I deleted C: & D: partitions. I deleted the D: partion
thinking it was the HP restore patition.
Anyway I then let the XP disk format C: drive but I don't think it
formatted D:, and install XP only to find I was
in trouble not having any chipset disks.

Not having the XP chipset and no way of getting it I finally deciided just
to reinstall Vista from a backup I made earlier (3 cd's).
So that takes me to where am now.
My Vista system is reinstalled and working fine (still have to put up with
Permission thing) but no second physical hard drive.

Second physical harddrive showing up UNALLOCATED.

I have many photo shoots on my unallocated drive, anthing I can do?




Now that you have given more info...I can see what you did.

You specifically stated that you had all your data on the D: drive

Then you specifically stated that you deleted your D: drive


So I am not sure why you'd expect your data to still be there...
you deleted it!

That's the bad news.


The good news is that you wisely did not format the D: drive

had you attempted to anything at all with the drive, your data would be
quite gone.

What you need to do now is get a third party utility that has the ability to
undelete or restore a deleted partition.

A friend of mine did exactly the same thing you did
and used Partition Magic to 100% restore the entire drive.

So use Partition Magic or any other similar utility...
but by no means do anything else to that drive.


Finally: BACK UP YOUR DATA!!!!!



There is a manual here. Page 45 covers "Undeleting Partitions".
I have Partition Magic 7, and have never used that option, which
is why it didn't come to mind :-)

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...ionmagic_8.pdf

Paul

"Maggy" wrote in message
...
What are you talking about? Laptop? what laptop? You really should read
posts before you answer them,
saves making yourself look foolish.
Anyway problem is now resolved, thanks to the others who did help.

Maggy




I am glad you were able to undelete your partition
but there is NO NEED to speak disrespectfully to someone here who offered
you help.

If someone made an incorrect reference...
no need to get all upset about it.
Kony is one of the most knowledgable people who gives advice here...

Sheesh, you have a desktop

Kony said "notebook"

and now you've changed it to "laptop"

A little nit picky are we?

Considerably less of an error than deleting a partition with all your data
on it!

(end of rant, I need a nap)



"kony" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:14:31 GMT, "Maggy"
wrote:

Hello Paul, Let me explain further in more detail. (and thanks for the
reply)

I bought this new off the shelf computer, a HP. That was my first
mistake,
Why? because they don't come with driver/chipset disks! (no disks at
all)
Having said that I must say that HP help and Support by phone is first
class.

It came bundled with pre-installed software mainly trial stuff I didn't
really want.
My biggest problem is that it also came with Vista Premium installed. I
tried to give Vista a chance but in the end I just got sick and tired of
all
the permissions. Can't do this, can't do that, permission required, you
don't have permision etc,etc...

So, I tried reinstalling my XP os, Second mistake! No Chipset.
This is when I deleted C: & D: partitions. I deleted the D: partion
thinking it was the HP restore patition.
Anyway I then let the XP disk format C: drive but I don't think it
formatted D:, and install XP only to find I was
in trouble not having any chipset disks.

Not having the XP chipset and no way of getting it I finally deciided
just
to reinstall Vista from a backup I made earlier (3 cd's).
So that takes me to where am now.
My Vista system is reinstalled and working fine (still have to put up
with
Permission thing) but no second physical hard drive.

Second physical harddrive showing up UNALLOCATED.

I have many photo shoots on my unallocated drive, anthing I can do?

TIA

There was no reason to delete the D partition just to
install XP. Now you need a software hard drive recovery
program to scan the drive and save the files to (an equal
amount of free space they took up) on a different drive.

Did you look for XP drivers for your system on HP's website?
If they are not there, note and list the specific drivers
for Vista and the component make and model for each. A web
search should come up with most if not all drivers for XP,
certainly the one(s) for the motherboard chipset.

There aren't a lot of chipsets out there for notebooks, most
likely it's nVidia, Intel, or maybe ATI. If one of these
three, cretainly their website will have XP driver(s)...
remember HP does not make laptop chips, there isn't any
driver that only exists from HP and not available elsewhere
AFAIK, you just need to ID the chip then use that info to
web search for the driver elsewhere. Another alternative is
a websearch for your model of laptop + "XP", which tends to
list forums where owners of it describe issues/resolutions
they had switching from Vista to XP.

Maggy wrote:

What are you talking about? Laptop? what laptop? You really
should read posts before you answer them, saves making yourself
look foolish. Anyway problem is now resolved, thanks to the
others who did help.

Without a properly constructed bottom-posted reply, it is
impossible for anyone to tell what you are talking about.

Please do not top-post. Your answer belongs after (or intermixed
with) the quoted material to which you reply, after snipping all
irrelevant material. See the following links:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/ (taming google)
http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/ (newusers)

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Try the download section.

"philo" wrote in message
...

"Maggy" wrote in message
...
What are you talking about? Laptop? what laptop? You really should read
posts before you answer them,
saves making yourself look foolish.
Anyway problem is now resolved, thanks to the others who did help.

Maggy




I am glad you were able to undelete your partition
but there is NO NEED to speak disrespectfully to someone here who offered
you help.

REALLY, HOW DOES CONFUSING THE ISSUE HELP?



If someone made an incorrect reference...
no need to get all upset about it.
Kony is one of the most knowledgable people who gives advice here...

YOU MEAN HE CONFUSES OTHERS/ISSUES TOO
I DIDN'T GET UPSET, THAT'S YOU'RE INTERPRETATION

Sheesh, you have a desktop

Kony said "notebook"

and now you've changed it to "laptop"

A little nit picky are we?

ONCE AGAIN, YOU'RE INTERPRETATION

Considerably less of an error than deleting a partition with all your data
on it!

YES, VERY SILLY ON MY PART

(end of rant, I need a nap)

SWEET DREAMS.

And before you WILL mention it, the Caps was done on purpose.
And shouting, once again is only you're interpretation.
Now go to sleep! lol






"kony" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:14:31 GMT, "Maggy"
wrote:

Hello Paul, Let me explain further in more detail. (and thanks for the
reply)

I bought this new off the shelf computer, a HP. That was my first
mistake,
Why? because they don't come with driver/chipset disks! (no disks at
all)
Having said that I must say that HP help and Support by phone is first
class.

It came bundled with pre-installed software mainly trial stuff I didn't
really want.
My biggest problem is that it also came with Vista Premium installed.
I
tried to give Vista a chance but in the end I just got sick and tired
of
all
the permissions. Can't do this, can't do that, permission required,
you
don't have permision etc,etc...

So, I tried reinstalling my XP os, Second mistake! No Chipset.
This is when I deleted C: & D: partitions. I deleted the D: partion
thinking it was the HP restore patition.
Anyway I then let the XP disk format C: drive but I don't think it
formatted D:, and install XP only to find I was
in trouble not having any chipset disks.

Not having the XP chipset and no way of getting it I finally deciided
just
to reinstall Vista from a backup I made earlier (3 cd's).
So that takes me to where am now.
My Vista system is reinstalled and working fine (still have to put up
with
Permission thing) but no second physical hard drive.

Second physical harddrive showing up UNALLOCATED.

I have many photo shoots on my unallocated drive, anthing I can do?

TIA

There was no reason to delete the D partition just to
install XP. Now you need a software hard drive recovery
program to scan the drive and save the files to (an equal
amount of free space they took up) on a different drive.

Did you look for XP drivers for your system on HP's website?
If they are not there, note and list the specific drivers
for Vista and the component make and model for each. A web
search should come up with most if not all drivers for XP,
certainly the one(s) for the motherboard chipset.

There aren't a lot of chipsets out there for notebooks, most
likely it's nVidia, Intel, or maybe ATI. If one of these
three, cretainly their website will have XP driver(s)...
remember HP does not make laptop chips, there isn't any
driver that only exists from HP and not available elsewhere
AFAIK, you just need to ID the chip then use that info to
web search for the driver elsewhere. Another alternative is
a websearch for your model of laptop + "XP", which tends to
list forums where owners of it describe issues/resolutions
they had switching from Vista to XP.

"CBFalconer" wrote in message
...
Maggy wrote:

What are you talking about? Laptop? what laptop? You really
should read posts before you answer them, saves making yourself
look foolish. Anyway problem is now resolved, thanks to the
others who did help.

Without a properly constructed bottom-posted reply, it is
impossible for anyone to tell what you are talking about.

Please do not top-post. Your answer belongs after (or intermixed
with) the quoted material to which you reply, after snipping all
irrelevant material. See the following links:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/ (taming google)
http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/ (newusers)

Sorry, I dont agree.

Without a properly constructed bottom-posted reply, it is
impossible for anyone to tell what you are talking about.

While irrelevant to you, snipping does in most cases completely or usually
changes
the context of a post. I find you're statement totaly ridiculus! Pardon my
spelling.
You may or should know that a snipped post by the time it reaches the end of
the line
can end up discussing a completely different subject.
And as far as top or bottom posting, well, that's the right of anyone who
posts. top, bottom, or middle,
that's my right/choice as it is yours. I don't believe though that I have a
right to tell anyone how to post.

On refection, maybe you're praticeing some comedy routine or something. In
which case you need a little more
work on the punchline.
Yours in laughter,
Maggy.... lol ...lol




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[page]: http://cbfalconer.home.att.net
Try the download section.

"Maggy" wrote in message
...

"philo" wrote in message
...

"Maggy" wrote in message
...
What are you talking about? Laptop? what laptop? You really should
read
posts before you answer them,
saves making yourself look foolish.
Anyway problem is now resolved, thanks to the others who did help.

Maggy




I am glad you were able to undelete your partition
but there is NO NEED to speak disrespectfully to someone here who
offered
you help.

REALLY, HOW DOES CONFUSING THE ISSUE HELP?



If someone made an incorrect reference...
no need to get all upset about it.
Kony is one of the most knowledgable people who gives advice here...

YOU MEAN HE CONFUSES OTHERS/ISSUES TOO
I DIDN'T GET UPSET, THAT'S YOU'RE INTERPRETATION

Sheesh, you have a desktop

Kony said "notebook"

and now you've changed it to "laptop"

A little nit picky are we?

ONCE AGAIN, YOU'RE INTERPRETATION

Considerably less of an error than deleting a partition with all your
data
on it!

YES, VERY SILLY ON MY PART

(end of rant, I need a nap)

SWEET DREAMS.

And before you WILL mention it, the Caps was done on purpose.
And shouting, once again is only you're interpretation.
Now go to sleep! lol





Ok Maggy...I am all done with my rant
and I see you replied to some jerk I plonked a while back.
It looks like you gave him hell...
so I cannot get too upset with you now G


As for me going to sleep...
heck it's only 7 pm

I don't got to bed until 8PM G

But most importantly I am glad you got your data back

I am also a photographer

and I built a machine for a good friend of mine who is also a
photographer...
and I have had to do MANY data retrievals for him

He now backs up his data all the time!!!!

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:09:52 GMT, "Maggy"
wrote:


"philo" wrote in message
.. .

"Maggy" wrote in message
...
What are you talking about? Laptop? what laptop? You really should read
posts before you answer them,
saves making yourself look foolish.
Anyway problem is now resolved, thanks to the others who did help.

Maggy




I am glad you were able to undelete your partition
but there is NO NEED to speak disrespectfully to someone here who offered
you help.

REALLY, HOW DOES CONFUSING THE ISSUE HELP?

While I may have had a laptop on my mind (a different
person's system), the rest of what I wrote was applicable.

Have a nice day.

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:26:33 GMT, "Maggy"
wrote:


Please do not top-post. Your answer belongs after (or intermixed
with) the quoted material to which you reply, after snipping all
irrelevant material. See the following links:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/ (taming google)
http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/ (newusers)

Sorry, I dont agree.


The conventions of the newsgroup are the primary factor. If
someone "disagreed" with writing english left to right would
that be ok too?

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "kony" typed:
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:09:52 GMT, "Maggy"
wrote:


"philo" wrote in message
...

"Maggy" wrote in message
...
What are you talking about? Laptop? what laptop? You really
should read posts before you answer them,
saves making yourself look foolish.
Anyway problem is now resolved, thanks to the others who did help.

Maggy




I am glad you were able to undelete your partition
but there is NO NEED to speak disrespectfully to someone here who
offered you help.

REALLY, HOW DOES CONFUSING THE ISSUE HELP?

While I may have had a laptop on my mind (a different
person's system), the rest of what I wrote was applicable.

Have a nice day.

LOL, how cool. I would have just said "Ungrateful bitch". You could bet she
wouldn't have been so scathing if her problem hadn't already been fixed for
her.

I just hope she doesn't drive a car if that's how she drives a computer.
People will die...

Cheers.
--
Shaun.

DISCLAIMER: If you find a posting or message from me
offensive, inappropriate, or disruptive, please ignore it.
If you don't know how to ignore a posting, complain to
me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate... ;-)

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:12:23 +1300, "~misfit~"
wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "kony" typed:
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:09:52 GMT, "Maggy"
wrote:


"philo" wrote in message
...

"Maggy" wrote in message
...
What are you talking about? Laptop? what laptop? You really
should read posts before you answer them,
saves making yourself look foolish.
Anyway problem is now resolved, thanks to the others who did help.

Maggy




I am glad you were able to undelete your partition
but there is NO NEED to speak disrespectfully to someone here who
offered you help.

REALLY, HOW DOES CONFUSING THE ISSUE HELP?

While I may have had a laptop on my mind (a different
person's system), the rest of what I wrote was applicable.

Have a nice day.

LOL, how cool. I would have just said "Ungrateful bitch". You could bet she
wouldn't have been so scathing if her problem hadn't already been fixed for
her.


Well... at some point I had an idea that tearing someone a
new one didn't get anything useful done.... LOL.


Funny thing is, if she'd paid for the advice she would've
said thanks and been grateful. I should charge more.