re: Data retreival Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 7:37 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by MartinM (6401 messages posted) Formatting the drive is absolutely the wrong thing to do ! And the more you mess with the drive the lower the chance of possible file recovery. It sounds, on the limited evidence you have given, as though you need a specialist recovery service which will be very expensive - get a quote first then decide if your data is worth it. I would, however, continue your research on a hardware forum as this one is focussed on XP. "Tom's Hardware" is one of many. Written in response to: Data retreival (Matt Jones: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 7:25 am) Responses to this message: re: Data retreival (Matt Jones: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 9:29 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Data retreival (Matt Jones: Tue, Mar 9, 2010, 7:25 am) re: Data retreival (MartinM: Tue, Mar 9, 2010, 7:37 am) re: Data retreival (Matt Jones: Tue, Mar 9, 2010, 9:29 am) re: Data retreival (Chuck: Tue, Mar 9, 2010, 11:34 am) re: Data retreival (Ricer46: Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:40 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum