computer boot freezes saying 0 partitions

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I Hope somebody can help me as i am new to this forum.

I bought a external harddrive yeserday to use for storage for my PS3 and read online i must convert it to FAT32.

I used a   program to do this but think i might have done something else as my computer screen went blue with something written in white and when i turned it on it goes to boot ad stops at a screen that says 0 partitions
thank you

[Allan]

EXACTLY what did you do and how did you do it? If you did it from within the OS then you did not do any damage to your system partition, but if you did it at boot you may have formatted the internal drive.

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Thanks for the reply.

this was all with in my OS
I was quite tired at the time but i as trying to format my new external harddrive and i must have clicked on my hardrive. then the screen went blue with some white writing and i had to turn the computer off at the plug.

My main worry is not getting all the files i had stored on the hard drive

hope this helps

[Allan]

EXACTLY what did you do and how did you do it?

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I either converted it to FAT32 or cleared partitions i think with in the software

[Allan]

Last time. EXACTLY what did you do and how did you do it?

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the program i used was Fat32 Formatter 1.0. In the selection bar at the top it had my external harddrive and my internal harddrive I must have selected the internal harddrive
I  selected delete disc partitions on the software

then the blue screen occurred and the computer shut down

[Allan]

Well, that's the problem with using third party software. Had you used the built in tools in Windows you would not have been able to format the system partition, but it's very possible this utility allowed you to do that by exiting Windows when you clicked on "okay" and then immediately performing the operations. I've never heard of or used that utility, so I can't be sure. But it certainly sounds as though you did indeed delete the partitions on your internal HD which caused all data to be lost.

What OS are you using? If you have an original OS cd or dvd, boot to it and let the installation routine begin just to see if it recognizes an existing Windows installation. I AM NOT SUGGESTING YOU PROCEED WITH A NEW INSTALLATION AT THIS TIME - you just want to see if there is an existing installation or if you did indeed delete everything.

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I dont have the original OS CD.

Is it possible some how to recovery files?

[Allan]

Here's a link to file recovery software (Google Search). I have no experience with any of the products.