Installed Win 7 in NTFS and cant recover XP DATA


  1. malino
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    Win 7 Pro
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    Installed Win 7 in NTFS and cant recover XP DATA


    Hi all,

    Im new here has you can see , if you guys can help me it would be great.
    I had an XP pro on NTFS, backuped my data and quick formated the disk in ntfs.
    Then i deleted the existing partition and instaled Win7 pro.
    When i went to retore my backuped data it had severel erros and couldnt recover a lot o pictures and documents.
    I ranned a recovery software on the drive but it only found win 7 files .
    Can you help me opn how to recover my XP files???? im desperated.

    Thanks in advanced.
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  3. Pauly
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    Win7 Ultimate X64
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    Can you be a bit more specific about how you made the backup

    As you say you deleted partition and formatted disk all info on that disk will be gone so i hope you backed it up elsewhere.
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