Solved Fat32 formatter crashed and deleted windows 7 partition

[skivar]

It all started when I was going to format a USB stick with fat32formatter. When I hit initialize drive, windows went to blue screen with lots of errors. Cant remember which. When the PC boots again its just blinking _.

I ran Seagate Seatools and checked the harddisk. It passed the short test. It shows up as it should in BIOS. I tried win startup repair and recovery, but its stuck at attempting to repair for hours without anything happening.

I ran win 7 installation from USB and the harddisk shows up, but only as Disk 0 Unallocated Space 1863 GB(usually a bit over 2TB).

I have lots of data that I want to keep. How can I save the data? And how can I repair the windows installation?

How in the world can this happen? How can windows 7 delete itself while in windows 7. :shock:

Computer:
Win 7 64-bit
i5 2.9GHz
ASUS P8H67
Seagate Barracuda green 2TB
8GB 1333mhz RAM
HD 6870

 

[Golden]

Hi,

Follow this to backup your data first:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ate-live-cd-dvd-usb-use-emergency-backup.html

Why did you not just format to FAT32 using the Windows inbuilt format option???? It sounds to me as if you may have mistakenly formatted your C:

Use this to display your Disk Management screen, then take a photo of that and post it here. Do NOT do any other manipulation of the partitions yet.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/93322-partition-wizard-use-bootable-cd.html

Regards,
Golden

 

[skivar]

I tried Peppermint, but no files shows up in its browser.

 

[jumanji]

You used Peppermint. OK run Gparted in it. It will show you the hard disk. Take a screenshot and post it. ( Peppermint has a screenshot utility in it. I even made a screenshot with it yesterday.) Let us see whether we can make something out of it.

 

[skivar]

It shows unallocated space 1.82GB. I didnt find the print screen app.

 

[edwar]

Yeah you selected the wrong drive to format.

 

[jumanji]

It shows unallocated space 1.82GB. I didnt find the print screen app.

Menu>Accessories>Screenshot



EDIT: Save the screenshot to an external device and post it.

 

[skivar]

I dont have a external device to store on. Why cant I store it on the usb stick?

Gparted shows:
PARTITION - FILE SYSTEM--SIZE
/dev/sda1 (exclemation symbol)NTFS 100.00 MB --
unallocated unallocated 1.82 TB

 

[edwar]

A USB stick is an External Device.

 

[skivar]

Well Im back up and running thanks to testdisk. Everythings back to where it was.

I ran testdisk in dos and fixed the boot partition.
I used this tutorial

Thanks for the guidance.

 

[narellepy]

Hi,
I think I am stuck on the same problem. my Sony laptop crashed white I was using fat32 formatter to format a toshiba external hard drive but I didn't realize my laptop also has a toshiba hard drive and I think I just wiped my computer. I have read all the posts here but I'm not confident in using dos and don't completely understand the instructions. At the moment the screen tells be to insert the boot disc which I don't have because the laptop didn't come with one when I bought it. I am downloading one which I hope will work but I have no idea where to go from there. I am hoping once I have a boot disc I can access system restore and restore it back to it's previous state. Does anyone know if this might work? Have I deleted all my data and is there any way to get it back now. Do you think Sony support could help walk me through?

Any ideas?

Thanks.