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Glad that you finally mustered courage to finish the pending operations in Partition Wizard and got your HDD back to its previous state accessing the data.:)
1. As regards autoplay, you may refer to this tutorial AutoPlay - Turn On or Off
2. Diffferent Data Recovery programs work on different algorithms. In a given situation one has to try different programs. There is no one size fits all. But generally in a situation where the HDD has become RAW or unallocated Partition Wizard is known to do a good job.
3. Even after accidenatally formatting a drive, it is possible to recover data, as long as the data has not been overwritten.
4. Regarding your final query: Yes, I recommend that you raise the query in the Installation and Setup subforum - not my cup of tea anyway, my brain autoskips if it can't indulge.. :)
Finally, do backup and save the MBR of all drives. In most cases of data inaccessibility - which arise due to first sector corruption, either boot code or partition table - simply restoring the backup will resolve the problem without a need for running a data recovery program. The first sector so backed up pertains to only that partition setup. If you make any changes to the disk setup, like adding, deleting, merging, extending the partitions, you must take a fresh backup containing those new partition data and discard the old backup.
There is even a simpler program to do it. MBR Backup 2.0 Released | TrojanHunter Blog
Physical Drive 0 will always be your internal drive. Physical drive 1 will be the connected external drive - where you have only one internal drive. Always connect only one external drive and save the backup in a clearly identifiable disk name-serial number folder. Also keep a snapshot of the MBR and Partition Table of that drive.
Finally, you may mark this thread as solved, so that it may help others with a similar problem.
Enjoy.:)
Last edited by jumanji; 20 Apr 2013 at 11:43. Reason: minor corrections