Lost Data (from backup drive)

[Tigjaw]

Hi guys,
I recently did a clean reinstall of windows xp but before I did so of course I backed up all of my files onto my external WD 120GB HDD and double backed up all of my essential data onto disks.

However, after the reinstall I found that my WD HDD had some quite large chunks of data missing, nothing essential fortunately!.. but things I'm disappointed to lose nonetheless.

I was wondering what my options were - if I have any - for recovering that data?

Also, the HDD has a 'syncronise' feature which I used a few weeks ago contained these files, but the syncronised data has since been replaced by the recent syncronise. Will there still be traces of the previous sync?

Kind Regards,
Tig

 

[jbloggs]

You could try some of the recovery utilities in the Recovery Software section, try TestDisk first...

 

[Tigjaw]

You could try some of the recovery utilities in the Recovery Software section, try TestDisk first...

Hey thanks, downloaded TestDisk but when I get to choosing the partition type I don't know what to select:

[Intel  ]  Intel/PC partition
[EFI GPT]  EFI GPT partition map (Mac i386, some x86_64...)
[Mac    ]  Apple partition map
[None   ]  Non partitioned media
[Sun    ]  Sun Solaris partition
[XBox   ]  XBox partition
[Return ]  Return to disk selection

I've had a look at the documentation but can't find anything that explains the choices.

As I mentioned before it's an external Western Digital 120GB USB Passport Hard-drive. Have any idea? I don't want to click the wrong thing and mess it up even more.