Hey,
I made a big problem. Yes I know it was completly my fault... Ok what happened?
I have an old Computer with Windows XP (Acer Aspire T620). I have it as a secundary computer to have some fun with Windows XP-Games. And I thought: "Lets try to install Win 98, to play Win 98 Games." So I took a new HDD and unlocked the XP-Hdd to install win98 and it worked well. After I locked the WinXP-Hdd again I could choose from which Hdd I wanted to boot.
Because I had some troubles I wanted to reinstall Win 98. So I started from the Win98-BootCD and Fdisk (it is Fdisk I think) started to formate my HDD for win98-Installation. I said yes to every question, so that fdisk could delete my Win98 HDD and reinstall Win98. But then I realised I forgot to unlock the WinXP-HDD so it started to formate it. To be clear, when I stoppped:
If you install Win98 there are 3 steps: 1. Fdisk deletes the Partition, 2. after booting it will write new partitions and 3. it will install Win98. I realised my mistake before step 2, so I think nothing was deleted, becuase I did not let him boot again to keep going. After I stopped everything every partition from the HDD was gone.
So I tried to recover the partition with a boot-CD and Testdisk. The problem is, it just founds my secondary Partition, not the important C:\ Partition. It founds another partition but it is corrupted. Laterly I will send some Images. There is no difference between the quick and the deep search.
The HDD is 200 GB and had (at least) a C and D partition (I think so) And there must be a recovery-Partition (MRB?) - but I am not sure about it. I cannot recover with a CD, because... I have no recover-CD anymore. (Is there a way to install XP-Home again, without a XP-CD, I have a original key on the Computer?).
I also tried to use my current PC to use testdisk with a USB - but there Testdisk could not find any HDD.
Thank you for every help!!
Windows XP System-Partition deleted
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Re: Windows XP System-Partition deleted
No. If you can't repair your broken installation, you must have some working recovery media - either on disk (not available in your case) or on CD-ROM.
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Re: Windows XP System-Partition deleted
Here are the pictures.
to make it clear, my goal would be:
Plan a: Recover c
Plan b: Recover mrb
Plan c: Install winxp
to make it clear, my goal would be:
Plan a: Recover c
Plan b: Recover mrb
Plan c: Install winxp
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Re: Windows XP System-Partition deleted
Did you get access to your lost partitions using the "p"-key ("list files") ?
If that fails, Testdisk won't be able to somehow repair your formated disk.
The question is what has been on your first partition - just some XP boot files? Those might be taken from another computer.
Does the "Programme"-partition contain your XP installation "Windows"-folder as well?
If that fails, Testdisk won't be able to somehow repair your formated disk.
The question is what has been on your first partition - just some XP boot files? Those might be taken from another computer.
Does the "Programme"-partition contain your XP installation "Windows"-folder as well?
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Re: Windows XP System-Partition deleted
No testdisk could not find files in the first partition (picture 4), and there should be the whole windows installation. Normally i call this partition "windows", like "Programme" for the programs.recuperation wrote: ↑23 Sep 2020, 21:25 Did you get access to your lost partitions using the "p"-key ("list files") ?
If that fails, Testdisk won't be able to somehow repair your formated disk.
The question is what has been on your first partition - just some XP boot files? Those might be taken from another computer.
Does the "Programme"-partition contain your XP installation "Windows"-folder as well?
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Re: Windows XP System-Partition deleted
Und selbst wenn Testdisk etwas finden sollte:
Der oben aufgezeichnete Plan passt nicht zum Installationsprozess von Windows XP.
XP wird nicht aus einer vorhandenen Installation heraus quasi aus sich selbst neu installiert.
Der oben aufgezeichnete Plan passt nicht zum Installationsprozess von Windows XP.
XP wird nicht aus einer vorhandenen Installation heraus quasi aus sich selbst neu installiert.