Windows 2000 problem

[venomva]

Hi all,

A friend of mine accidently deleted her active drive in Win 2k. Is there anyway to undo or fix what she did?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[mujahid7ia]

By active drive do you mean boot drive? Deleted means formatted or just deleted all the files on it?

[stiltman]

Hi all,

A friend of mine accidently deleted her active drive in Win 2k. Is there anyway to undo or fix what she did?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Define active.

win2k will not let you delete a partition that holds the system files.

[AlinaVastag84]

There are a lot of programs that can save everything it was on a HDD even if it was formated. You might just need another empty HDD ,or enough space to save what was lost.
Example : ""LOST&FOUND"" , a soft that helped me in an ugly situation...
You`ll find it easy with "google" or something...

[dxj40c]

I think Win2k has a "repair" utility. I think you have to use the Win2k boot disks to access it since you can't boot off the hard drive.

[dxj40c]

I forgot to add that you will need the Win2k disk. I don't think you can "accidently" format a hard drive (it's complicated enough when you intend to) so everything is probably still there, she may have just 'deleted' a file that is needed to boot.