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Dear everybody,

I have 3 partitions (C, D, E) on X61. Previously, I do the factory recovery using recovery partition and there is the option for only formating C drive and leave D and E intact.

I have just made the DVD recovery and there is no more Factory Recovery Option in Recovery Partition. Therefore I used the Recovery DVD to do the Factory Recovery. However, when I insert DVD No.2, it started copying files without asking me whether I want to format the whole HDD or only C drive.

Too afraid, I cancel the process but now the whole HDD is inaccessible.

I would like to ask whether the DVD Recovery formated all partitions in my HDD? Is there any way to recover my data on drive D and E?

Thank you so much!

You can try to undelete partitions with:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit ... ration.htm

Its free to try for 30 days. I have used it for years but mostly to resize and copy partitions.

LongmanVN wrote:snip......it started copying files without asking me whether I want to format the whole HDD or only C drive........snip.........I would like to ask whether the DVD Recovery formated all partitions in my HDD? Is there any way to recover my data on drive D and E?....snip

It is not suppose to ask you for anything, that's exactly how Rescue and Recovery works from recovery disks and alas your partitions have been wiped out.