Asus Eee PC 1101HA Upgrade

I helped my brother upgrade his Asus Eee PC 1101HA.

http://uk.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_PC_1101HA_Seashell/

He purchased the Samsung 840 120 GB SSD here at amazon.com. But during installation he ran into a problem.

The 1101HA boots just fine off an external DVD ROM drive into the Windows 7 install disc. Selected the empty space as the target (no partitions created) to install Windows 7. The next step is where the issue occurred. The Windows 7 install hangs/freezes while copying Windows install files to the SSD.

Oops, I formatted the wrong drive

It's one of those moments, you're reinstalling Windows and you're looking at the list of partitions and drives and you're sure you're looking at the right drive and partition and you select format. Then all of the sudden, it hits you, OOPS, WRONG DRIVE. Angry expletives follow.

Rules to follow so that you don't do format the WRONG drive, there's only one that I follow:

• If possible (because some computers, especially laptops, have drives that may not be easily accessible), ALWAYS disconnect any drive that you don't unintentionally want to format.

Assuming you did what you didn't intend to do, we move on to RECOVERY or unformat.

So yes, I DIDN'T follow my own rule and YES, I did format the WRONG DRIVE. Still upset about really. But what's done is done and trying to recover was very trying experience.

The drive I formatted was a 1 TB Western Digital SATA HDD.

Software I tried:

• Kroll Ontrack EasyRecovery - http://www.krollontrack.com/data-recovery/recovery-software/
• EaseUS Data Recovery - http://www.easeus.com/datarecovery/
• Remo Recover - http://www.remosoftware.com/download
• R-TT R-Studio - http://www.r-tt.com/