Recover Lost Data

I recently upgraded to Windows Vista from Windows XP Professional. Instead of upgrading the operating system, it wiped out everything I had on my Windows XP operated hard drive. As a result of this, I have lost everything on my hard drive. Is it possible to recover lost Windows XP data from the hard drive, which is now running on Windows Vista?

Upon installing an operating system, one needs to use the same partition to write the new operating system on the hard drive that the original operating system functions on. Otherwise, the installation will reformat the hard drive and create a new partition where the operating system can be loaded.

If a new partition has been created, which is likely the case when you cannot access your original files, then the data is lost and the chances of recovery depend on the amount of new data that has been written on the new partition. The new data will overwrite the previous data and overwritten data cannot be recovered. However, installing just the operating system will not fill the drive completely. Any unused space left on the new partition still holds the older data.

Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery Software is specifically designed to recover data that has been lost due to improper installation of an operating system or similar circumstances. This data recovery software supports both FAT and NTFS partition designs. Listed below is the simplest and safest approach to recover data from your personal computer.

• Please follow the procedure described in this Disk Doctors knowledge base article to make the drive you wish to recover data from a slave drive on the same computer or preferably a separate PC. http://www.diskdoctors.net/knowledgebase/default.aspx?cNode=6I3H0P&pNodes=2Y1U0D
• Install the data recovery software on the host machine (Please be sure that you do not write any information on the hard drive you wish to recover data from, as overwritten data is unrecoverable.)
• Launch the data recovery program
• Select the option “Recover your data”
• Select the physical drive containing the accidentally formatted partition
• Select the option “Search for lost partition(s)”
• Select the "Thorough Scan" partition search method
• Select the older logical drive that you have formatted
• Allow the software to run the first level of scanning on this logical drive
• Once the scanning process is over, you might not see the data of your previously formatted drive. Instead, you will see data that was stored on the newly formatted partition
• Select the option “Turbo Scan” and allow the data recovery software to scan the drive.  Once the Turbo Scan process is complete, you should have the desired data from your old partition once again.

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