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Partitions became 'Unallocated' after installing xp over 7
Hello guys, I have got caught up into a horrible situation right now.
I had windows 7 x64 installed and running well on my 1TB sata HDD with three partitions. It was all well with it and smooth. But some of regional language software wont work on it,and I decided that I need to have windows XP. I refrerred few guides to installing windows xp over windows 7 in dual boot. Then, I followed the following procedure to dual boot..
1>I created a new 10GB partition out of unused space of third(E) partition using "shrink" and formatted it to NTFS(I did format it during the XP install) so as to install XP on this drive.
2>I did not make any backup or whatsoever, In my mind, worst case scenario was that I will be no longer able to boot into 7 if anything goes wrong.
3>I installed winodws XP on newly created 10GB partition and it installed successfully.
4>Then, I opened "My Computer" from newly installed XP and discovered that only the 10GB drive is being shown. So, I ran into disk management tool, and there it showed the
remaining space(1TB minus 10GB) as "Unallocated"!!! which was having all my data+windows 7 + important documents and stuff in those partitons.
5>I tired "Easy BCD" But it wont dectect any "BCD storage on my system" I am totally stuck now. I have also tried to repair using my windows 7 dvd, but it wont detect any windows 7 installation on my hdd at all.
What should I do?