I had a hd with 2 partition. Windows was on C: and private files on D:. I only wanted to format C: to be able to reinstall Windows XP, because it didn't work well.I accidently formated C: (which had windows XP) with Windows98. After formating, my hd didn't work at all. I got another hd and installed windows xp on it. Windows XP couldn't read the old hd.Then I decided to fdisk, format the new hd and install Win98 on it. Win98 found DIR0001 and DIR0002 in the old hd . There are a lot of FILE00001.chk files, each of them is 16kb and just 2-3 of them 32kb. When I look into the properties of the hd, it says there are 14 gigs existing. Is it possible to get my files back?