Editing CMOS Setup

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harsh
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On entering in CMOS Setup I changed the mode of primary slave i.e. hard disk to normal from LBA. On restarting in windows the scandisk showed bad sectors in the hard disk and a directory containing some data was missing. I againg entered in the CMOS setup and changed the MODE to LBA but, the data was still missing. I then formatted the hard disk and tried to recover the data with a data recovery softaware but of no use. Can anyone sort out my problem of recovering the data.
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Have you tried setting it back to normal? Why did you change it in the first place?

And why did you format? I think you screwed yourself there. :cry:
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Have you read what format displays?
WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK
DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)?

It's true.
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