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Well, last night I had a little problem.

Now, on my PC I have always had 2 hard disks, one running XP, the other running vista. I kept all my data safely on the XP drive, and only copied essentials over to Vista (Pictures, Music) as a backup.

Vista got full of unwanted software, driver problems and etc. so I decided to reinstall it. Now the first time I did this, I did it successfully until Internet Explorer started playing up and running multiple processes when not even open. Suspecting this to be a virus/malware, I attempted to once again reinstall Vista (it was still a clean build, I hadn’t put any time into it). This is where it went wrong.

Inside the Vista installation I was prompted to select a hard disk on which to install it. Now, both the hard disks in my machine are identical (as in, they are both Maxtor 300GB…). Out of confusion, I deleted the partition on my XP drive. This therefore meant I had effectively wiped all my data.

Long story short, it’s yet to be recovered although it should be possible. But I spent over 6 hours attempting to recover it.

And I’m now running Linux - Ubuntu, lets see how it goes. I’ll write my opinions soon.