Well, TestDisk thought it found the partition and could restore it but on reboot, Windows didn’t see it and thought the drive was still raw.

Find & Recover could find the partition and tried to mount the drive but that just made both Windows Explorer and F&R hang.

But both of these told me the same thing … a 750 gig disk that my computer was trying to refashion into a RAID mirror (if that’s the correct term) for a 500 gig disk. So both programs only saw the existing 500 gig partition and couldn’t find any older partition info.

I’m trying Recuva now. Doing a deep scan. Maybe it can still find individual files. Says that scans for large drives can take “up to one hour” but says that mine will complete in 5 hours.

If that fails, I’ll try R-Studio. After that, I’ll just give up.

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” – W.C. Fields

But this is interesting: The computer couldn’t boot from the C drive so I reinstalled Windows. Since there is already a Windows directory, it got installed to Windows.0. And when I rebooted, I got a boot menu with two choices – WinXP or WinXP. Going with the second choice, I’m back in my old Windows again, with all apps seemingly intact. Could it be? Just adjust the boot menu to get rid of the “new” XP option, delete out that folder, and I’m good to go without having to spend a week redownloading and reinstalling everything? Well that’s one small favor anyway.

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