Aaarrrrrrrrrgggggg!!!!!!!!

i cant believe it!!!!!!!!! im sooooo pissed of right now!!!!

i was trying to install Windows on my new hard drive and i acidentally deleted EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!! on my old hard drive

i mean EVERYTHING all my monty pics and my sis wedding/engagment pics and all my work and music and software its all gone !!!!!!!!!

and now instead of the emachine set up i had with all sorts of hi tech stuff on t all i have is a basic windows xp with nothing on it!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps not this computer i cant bear to turn mine on

Wow, that sucks. Too bad you don't live around here, my dad could probably get it back for you. He's done it before.

My mom did that to my computer on accident once.. I wasn't amused.

is that even possible? i deleted the partition (whatever the hell that is!) and aparantly thats really bad

Sorry to hear that. You should look into a data recovery software that you could use to get ur information back. I have never tried this though and do not know if it will work for you. Did you delete the partition or did you just delete the files from them?

Partitions.. yeah, my dad knows all about that stuff.

Looks like we both posted at the same time. If you deleted the partition, I'm not sure if you can recover ur data. I would try any recovery tool that came with ur emachine.

i deleted the partition itself


ps WTF is it?

A partition is the amount of space that you allocate to create a drive. Like if you have a 100Gig drive you could partition it into two halfs and format it to have a C: and D: drive. Did you buy the machine new? Did it come with any cd's? You should at least be able to reinstall ur software again with those cd's.

aight its long and complicated


i got the original machine from my brother in law and it had 120 Gig on it and all was well and happy

then i got it into my head that since my mom wanted a new hard drive for our family computer i would give her that one and take the brand new 320 gig harddrive

thats when it all went to pieces i installed it and was going to put windows on it and accidentaly shut down the process half way through so when i started it up again it said to delete the partition to install so i did

then i realized it was the other hardrive(the 120) and deleted all my stuff and now the 320 is all divided up and nothing is working

Did you remove the 120 first? So nothing is working on the machine?

no i slaved the 120 to the 320 to transfer info


(in hindsite: really really really dumb move!!!!!!!!!!)

Don't feel too bad, I've accidentally wiped out hard drives(notice the 's') too. Thats why I got into the habit of physically yanking one out before messing with the installation of another. You live you learn, no biggy.

yeah but it still isnt fun ya know? i mean i total screwed up and im supposed to be the resident computer genius in or house and i figured i know so much and i totally screwed up!!!:(

Its ok man. Its ok to screw up. Failure is the best teacher whether it be computers or life :D

im soo not in the mood for a fortune cookie (but u r making me feel better) and besides i realized at least i didnt blow anything up or melt the hardrives!


NEWS UPDATE: im chatting with the dell service guy, nice guy named PAWAN, and he says i may be able to recover it.

PS: i totally rocks to have asite wheer u can vent out ur problems and peeps listen somewhat and try to help too!:)

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Originally Posted by alexrls

im soo not in the mood for a fortune cookie (but u r making me feel better) and besides i realized at least i didnt blow anything up or melt the hardrives!

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If it makes u feel anymore better, I've fried quite a few Motherboards, cpus, Ram and Harddrives in my life time ;)

Once, I turned on my computer and there was a big *POP* and smoke poured out of the cd drive. That was wonderful. Found out the power supply died.

thanks dude u really helped me out of a deep hole back there.

Anytime. Hope you get everything to work again :)

update: geeksquad said they could maybe help me for 80 bucks keep ur fingers crossed!!!