Help, restoring formated HD.

[Guest_imported]

I had a 40 GB Drive and 2 partitions one for LInux and one for WIndows XP. When I had problems with Xp I put anpther HD (20GB) and from there I selected to foramat the other drive. I don't know how but usualy windows can't see my linux partition, thistime it formated it so that i would have a 40 gb drive. I don't know how since i had two partitions. I did format it as FAT but showed an error after copleting it and then I did the same with a quick NTFS format that fook me like 2 seconds. after that I had an ampty 37gb drive. I had about 15 GB on the lInux partition. I disconnected the HD after that so that nothing else would be changed. WHat can be done to restore the linux partition?

 

[electraboy]

Hi,
take a look at thread528-30014.
But if you don't want to read all 24 messages, try putting your HD in a PC with a working Operating System.
Install Ontrack Easyrecovery and you can let the program search the disk for everything that is still on it
(If you have only formatted it, almost all data will still reside on the disk It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Murphy's Laws​