Question: When I reinstall Windows XP by mistake I deleted all five partitions. I did not format them yet though.
How can I recover the partitions? When I attach the hard disk to another PC it just says that the partition is unformated and asks “Would you like to format it?”.
Answer: Use ralford’s suggestion together with TestDisk :
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