XP Install Hard Disk Problem

[John Hayden]

We had win 2k and decided to upgrade to xp. We have a two
drive system, the D drive reserved for data and C drive
for operating system and programs. When we first
installed xp it configured itself with a dual boot but
everything worked well. we decided that we no longer
wanted win 2k so we reinstalled xp and indicated an
overlay. the problem now is that the D drive appears to
have lost all data. Prior to the upgrade the D drive was
FAT format but it is now NTFS. I can see the D drive and
there are no errors but no data either. Is it possible
for me to recover the data? The bad news is that I do not
have a current backup and there were may files that are
possibly lost.

John

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi John,

Not sure why D would have been overwritten unless you indicated that it
should be. Was there an OS installed there before? You might try a file
recovery tool. If it indicates no recoverable files, then chances are that
they are lost without professional (expensive) data recovery techniques.

This is a fairly good free one:
http://hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/~hcj58401/

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"John Hayden" > wrote in message
...
> We had win 2k and decided to upgrade to xp. We have a two
> drive system, the D drive reserved for data and C drive
> for operating system and programs. When we first
> installed xp it configured itself with a dual boot but
> everything worked well. we decided that we no longer
> wanted win 2k so we reinstalled xp and indicated an
> overlay. the problem now is that the D drive appears to
> have lost all data. Prior to the upgrade the D drive was
> FAT format but it is now NTFS. I can see the D drive and
> there are no errors but no data either. Is it possible
> for me to recover the data? The bad news is that I do not
> have a current backup and there were may files that are
> possibly lost.
>
> John