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Among the many programs I have used in the past for data recovery, I have found EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional to be most successful. I have had high success rates in recovering data...
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I installed a second hard drive, formatted it, partioned it into 2.
Then I decided to shrink my origial drive which was already had 2 partitions.
I shut down and it rebooted just fine.
But now I noticed these folders in the new E: partition:
Boot
bootmgr
BOOTSECT.BAK
I know these files...
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