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arse!
was messing with trying to get vista off of my new work laptop and xp on to it instead.
was trying to format the drive in the laptop to get xp on and aaaaargh! i've just discovered that xp installer didnt find my raid drive inside the laptop and that i've only gone and formatted my backup drive (which was connnected via usb)!
thank god i've been backing up code to dvd but all my music/mp3s/video/apps backups are gone. i have some older mps and apps on another drive somewhere tho...i'm not exactly sure what i've lost yet...shit.
(holds head in hands)
idiot idiot idiot!
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bla
ive done the idiot thing twice recently
arse indeed!
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Zanf
you havent copied any data on it yet?
GetDataBack works wonders for me when Ive made fuckups like that.
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KidQuaalude
windows already copied over the files it needs for install..may be a lost cause but i'll give it a try
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sAMsKi
boooooohoooooooo 
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Unknownforce
I've used GetDataBack twice, once with a PC hard drive and once with a camera smart mediacard. 99% success rate both times (although nothing had been written in both occasions)
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lowlifi
Most cases you can get data back even after formatting a drive. The drive still has the old data, as long as you dont start copying new files on to the backup, your old ones should be right back in place. There are also free data recovery tools in Ubuntu. You could boot up a LiveCD and recover the drive from that.
link
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mulletballet
You'll need to either get a floppy drive attached via USB to provide your RAID controller drivers during XP setup ("Press F6 to load third party RAID or SCSI drivers") -- or use nLite to make an XP CD that has the RAID controller drivers on it, in order to be able to install the OS -- in the mean time, isn't Vista still there with all your data?
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ignatius
sorry for your woes. glad you had things backed up.
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tunalicker
vista created a whole new vista for me as well. i lost my audio drive. 500 gigs of zilch. nada. null. zed. fukt. i am pretty quick at noticed bad behavior. i have no idea what i did in that case. thank goodness i have XP and ubuntu on separate hard drives still and working. but geez. macrosifters had had my last buck.
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lilt
=(
i feel for you
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KidQuaalude
managed to get back most (90%+)of what was there using getdataback. quite a lot of unnamed directories but most of my stuff is still there...phew!
thanks for the advice + kind words people.
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quip
yes theres nothing worse than losing stuff.
have to say i am loving the time machine on osx. one stop backup yes!
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Unknownforce
we have a time machine router thingy but i have no idea how to use it...
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Zanf
^ RTFM
kid quaalude said: "managed to get back most (90%+)of what was there using getdataback. quite a lot of unnamed directories but most of my stuff is still there...phew!"
That will teach you, you fecking amateur!
GDB does do that - it keeps the files but loses the directory structure but which would you rather lose? Not bad for a £40 program thats saved my bacon more than once.
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Unknownforce
Zanf said: "^ RTFM"
It was inherited sans manual! I don't have a mac anyway so its probably redundant to me
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