I hate SATA and Windows XP

[Versed]

Sorry I haven't replied in a few days, from the title of the thread I'm sure you can tell I've been busy.

As for HOW it happened:

I downloaded Seagates DiskWizard for Windows. I went to re-install the drive since it wasn't reading properly. I was given three choices on what to "make" the drive -

1. Storage
2. Bootable Disk (keep data)
3. Bootable Disk (delete data)

Obviously option three was a no go. I didn't need an external hard drive to boot from so I naturally skipped over two. I picked one and there was not a single warning.

After I found out my drive had been formatted I actually went back into the DiskWizard three or four more times to make sure there wasn't a warning that said that was going to happen.

How do you make a program to install hard drives and NOT put a big fat waring that says you may lose your crap?

As for data recovery, I don't intend on trying it. I figure there's a reason it happened and I'd been getting frustrated with work and wished I could just start from scratch with certain things.

Now I have no other option then to start from the bottom. Starting clean will allow me to reorganize things the way that I want.

Thank you for all your help though, especially you Omga_Zro

[Ranma]

I've accidentally wiped wrong drives before too. It is very upsetting but like you said a clean start can feel refreshing after you get over the initial loss. To prevent it from happening again maybe ought to consider a backup routine.

[Versed]

To prevent it from happening again maybe ought to consider a backup routine.

Ya Princess and I have decided that we've lost data too many times. We're going to start backing up our files online.

[insomniaprincess]

technically princess has already been doing that. Since the last time my main hard drive went kablooey right before a huge deadline, I learned my lesson.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

in the next thread: how to turn an old computer from '98 into an affordable linux backup solution that works 100% over the network!

[Agua]

oh, oh, tell me more...