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thegurukid · November 22nd, 2004, 04:41 PM

^Thanks a lot

I found the problem, I didn't reformat the D drive when I re-installed, Windows XP was only reading 32 gigs. So I had to run my maxtor maxblast software (which reformats) for windows to read the full 152 gigs.

After that I ran R-Studio (thanks sechs), which found all of my data on the scan. I am now recovering the files.

So in conclusion, I had to reformat just to get XP to read the disk, THEN run R-Studio and recover the files. Thanks a lot for all the help sechs and sr, I seriously appreciate it.

November 22nd, 2004, 04:41 PM	#6 (permalink)
thegurukid Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 7	^Thanks a lot I found the problem, I didn't reformat the D drive when I re-installed, Windows XP was only reading 32 gigs. So I had to run my maxtor maxblast software (which reformats) for windows to read the full 152 gigs. After that I ran R-Studio (thanks sechs), which found all of my data on the scan. I am now recovering the files. So in conclusion, I had to reformat just to get XP to read the disk, THEN run R-Studio and recover the files. Thanks a lot for all the help sechs and sr, I seriously appreciate it.