Partition lost after reverting to XP!

Freakish_05 · 14 Jul 2007 at 10:30

Morning all,

I just reformatted my PC with Windows XP after getting sick of Vista.

The long and short of it is that my 500GB media drive (which I believe I formatted in Vista) is no longer accessible!

In disk manager the partition is displayed as a GPT Protective Partition. I've got no idea how it can be protected as I didn't touch bitlocker :S

Please can someone help me recover my media drive!!!

Cheers,
Freakish_05

oddjob62 · 14 Jul 2007 at 10:35

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_FAQ.mspx might be of use

richardbirks · 14 Jul 2007 at 12:29

oddjob62 said:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_FAQ.mspx might be of use

That smells like the only way back is to put Vista back on, back-up the data somewhere, and restore it to an "old style" NTFS disk.

Were Microsoft reading the "How to lose friends and alienate customers book" when they released Vista? :rolleyes:

A read-only driver for this type of partition in XP wouldn't kill 'em, I'm sure.
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Richard

eXor · 14 Jul 2007 at 12:58

oddjob62 said:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_FAQ.mspx might be of use

When installing Vista, can you choose between GPT and MBR?

Freakish_05 · 14 Jul 2007 at 19:27

eXor said:
When installing Vista, can you choose between GPT and MBR?

You can choose GPT and MBR. Evidently I chose GPT.

The good news is that I managed to recover all of my files using a program called GetDataBack for NTFS

<< This prog should definately be added to the "useful apps list".

Freakish_05