hard drive got wiped out while restarting

[Hitesh0528]

i installed win xp on the c partition and all the users data on the e partition was still there and working anyway i went to updat win xp and it told me it had to restart so i did and when it did the computert just kept rebooting so i took the hd out and put it in a differnet machine and it says the hd is clear like the free space is at 100%
how is it possible for this to happen while it restarts

 

[qt 3.14159]

is it possible that the 2nd machine is win 98 and the drive from the XP machine was formatted in NTFS?

 

[Hitesh0528]

no the second machine was 2000

 

[ekÆsine]

leave the hard disk in the win2000 computer and click start button>> run. in the run box type diskmgmt.msc. do you still see the E: drive or any others? If it did get deleted you can run data recovery software like Easy Recovery to get your files back.

 

[Hitesh0528]

well that is past now the computer just keeps rebooting 30seconds -10 min after i turn it on i try to put xp back on the disk but once the computer has to do alot of work it reboots

 

[derrmc]

well that is past now the computer just keeps rebooting 30seconds -10 min after i turn it on i try to put xp back on the disk but once the computer has to do alot of work it reboots

go to safe mode do a virus scan and maybe uninstall update

 

[kostas]

was it maybe the Service Pack 2 update?

i just want to know because i'm collecting information on all the problems that people have had with Microshit's newest update!

 

[Hitesh0528]

no i didnt put service pack2 on it