Reinstalled Windows and it cleared my hard drive!! (1 Viewer)

[William Ward]

ARGH!!!!!!!

I had an error message when I booted my computer on the explorer.exe file. It said I had to reinstall windows. Little did I know that it would erase everything on my hard drive. AUGH this sucks.

Does anyone have the URL for RamBooster or Download Accelerator. That Download Accelerator was a life saver being that I'm on kick-off happy AOL.

Thanks.....

 

[James St]

You can get Download Accelerator here.
www.speedbit.com

 

[James St]

Not familiar with RamBooster but here is the link I found for it. Is this what you are looking for?
http://www.sci.fi/~borg/rambooster/index.htm

 

[Rob Gillespie]

Just reinstalling Windows would not in itself wipe your entire hard drive unless you're using one of those 'restore' CDs supplied with pre-built systems from manufacturers such as Dell or Compaq.

What version of Windows are you using and how did you go about 'reinstalling'? I know it doesn't help much now but it might be useful to know incase the same situation comes up again.

 

[Cees Alons]

Probably your harddisc was inaccessible to begin with - and hence the request to reinstall Windows.

Cees

 

[William Ward]

Rob: System Restoration Kit was exactly what I used.

Thanks for the links....

Man this stinks!

 

[AndyVX]

William,

Yup, that System Restore disc would have been what cleared everything off your HDD.

(If something was wrong with your hard drive anyways though, even with a real Win CD you'd have to clear everything)

 

[Rob Lutter]

I would also recommend using a program like Partition Magic to partition Windows onto another drive letter (IE: Windows on the C drive, files on the D drive). That way you can uninstall windows to your heart's content and your files would still be fine.
mine is...
C drive - Windows
D drive - MP3s
E drive - Misc
F drive - Games
G drive - DVDROM
H drive - CDRW
...of course, that could get confusing for some people