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Mon 22/08/05 at 09:32
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Is there anyway to recover data on a removable drive if you accidentally dropped the partition information? Was reformatting a laptop last night with my ZIP drive attached and n00bishly selected the ZIP drive whn telling Windows to drop the partition.

I know there's a way of doing this with HDDs but wasn;t sure if it could be done on an external, removable device.
Mon 22/08/05 at 13:57
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Hmmm... wrote:
> If it's critical data you could give Steve Gibson's SpinRite a go:
> [URL]http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm[/URL]

Cheers Hmmm, will give it a go later tonight and se eif it works. Still feeling a total n00b for doing something so stupid, will teach me to pay more attention next time. Had that horrid feeling of "oops" when I heard the Zip drive spin up after hitting L...
Mon 22/08/05 at 09:36
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If it's critical data you could give Steve Gibson's SpinRite a go: [URL]http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm[/URL]
Mon 22/08/05 at 09:32
Regular
"l33t cs50r"
Posts: 2,956
Is there anyway to recover data on a removable drive if you accidentally dropped the partition information? Was reformatting a laptop last night with my ZIP drive attached and n00bishly selected the ZIP drive whn telling Windows to drop the partition.

I know there's a way of doing this with HDDs but wasn;t sure if it could be done on an external, removable device.

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