Slight Vista formatting wrong HDD problem

durandal_666 · n00b Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 9

Ive decided (since im a bit of a gamer) that id have to bite the bullet and get vista for future games, figured I would dual boot it with gentoo. The problem I encountered is that with the nice and lovley user-friendly interface put my 3 HDD's in a different order to what id expect (Or is this perhaps a Windows Vista (TM) 'feature' when it detects linux?)

The upshot is the hdd it formatted had 220GB of stuff that I was about to transfer to my fileserver.

While I understand that ill lose approx 4GB of data that windows has overwritten, im hoping that i can recreate the partition structure and salvege something out of this incident.

Any ideas/tips?

avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

If Windows formatted your 220GB with its own filesystem then I wouldn't hope on getting that data back.

Do new games require vista? That seems just a little irrational. I mean, for game companies to recommend that their resource-intense 3D games be run atop an already directX rendered desktop... I guess that's business.

drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: London

If you've a spare 220G (or however big the drive/partition is), maybe you could try taking an image of the partition then fsck'ing it using fsck.<whatever> (where whatever is your 'old' fs, e.g. ext3). I wouldn't hold out too much hope but worth a go. Either that or a bit of googling might get you further than this