While installing WinXP on my PC I did not remove my 2nd hdd and stupidly deleted the partition thinking it was the C:\ drive. I tried a win 98 bootdisk and in fdisk created a partition only now it cannot be read on my system as my system wants to format it. I have some files on this drive I would like to recover. I tried Handy recover 2.0 but it doesn't see my drive.I removed the last partition I created thinking that Handy Recovery could fix or undo what I did to the original. I fear placing another partition but this may be why Handy Recovery isn't helping. Any ideas as to how I can save files? This drive has no operating system on it ..Just storage. Any advice would be great. TIA DJMike

I have recovered a lost partition in the past but years ago in the days of DOS 2.11 before FAT32 and NTFS and anyway it may just have been luck (I deleted a partition and then recreated it exactly the same as before and lo and behold my files were still there). You might have to try a data recovery service which should work since all the data is still there (one assumes). Possibly a program such as Partition Magic or similar might be able to recreat a usable partition table but I don't know.

Testdisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.html how to use www.geocities.com/thestarman3/testdisk.html have not used the program and might only be avaible for FAT drives not NTFS. also http://www.pcinspector.de/download.htm#file_recovery HDD FILE RECOVERY PROGRAMS with luck :)