drunknbass Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 so in the process of trying to get a system running i had a whole hd off a real mac g4 full of work files and i accidently installed windows xp onto it, but the installation only completed like 30% of the way because of a un related error, so now im stuck. it was originally a 90 gig hd on a mac and had 80 gigs of files. about 50 gigs are important. only 10 gigs or so are real important. is there a remote chance i can recover the files even tho the file system was changed during the windows installation? i didnt format the drive and wipe it. i did a quick install so im hoping the data is still there somewhere. but im use to recovering off ntfs file systems. i found this http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk which ill try tomm. but id like any info cause this is a big mess up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtsmith Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Hopefully the file structure is still intact. You should expect some data loss, you might also have to try a raw recovery. If the software doesn't work you should try taking it a data recovery pro. I've had good experiences with CBL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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