hi all, i just made a very big mistake. I wanted to delete the partition table (in DOS) of my primary slave drive but instead deleated the table of my primary master. It occured afterwards to me when i decided to reboot my pc. I made the same partition again but didn't see anything. Is there any tool out there to regain my partition table? Already tried Norton utilities but to no avail. I have very important data on the drive...unfortunately ain't got a backup...lesson for others without a backup!!! Thanx Stan

Try this - won't regain your partitiion table, but might let you read what's on the disk (so you can save it):- http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

You can recreate the partition with a neat (free) utility called Ranish Partition Manager. Just make sure that you don't format the drive. You may want to practice on another machine first. I downloaded a win98 bootdisk and took all of the extras off like Copy, Deltree, Mouse and others... then put Ranish onto that disk. Boot from the floppy and go into Ranish partition manager. If your old partition used the whole hard drive that is easier, just create a Primary partition of the same type(ntfs or fat32), flag it as the boot partition and save changes to the mbr.