How to restore a TFS workspace and pending changes to a newly installed hard drive?

Question

On my system, I have two hard drives; C and D. TFS 2010 installed on C and my TFS workspace installed on D to the Workspaces folder.

Drive D: failed and I had pending changes in the workspace that I do not wish to lose.

Since my C drive is okay, it is possible to recreate the workspace with all the pending changes?

Answer 1

Workspaces only keep a record that a file has changed, it does not record what those changes are. So you won't be able to get the Pending Changes from the other drive unless you created a Shelveset as a backup.