Partition Recovey after XP reinstall?

[Nyture]

Howdy,
I made a stupid mistake the other day. My computer was overrun with computer spyware and viruses. So I zipped all my files with winace and archived them into multi-files. I backed them up onto disks then rebooted, loaded my winXP disk, deleted my old partition, then created 3 new ones. I reinstalled winXP on the first new partition and started retrieving my archived files ... but found out I had forgot to burn one. Because I missed that one file, I cannot recover my multi-volume archive, but I can view all my files and directory structure in it.

Is there any way I can undelete my old partition so I can grab that one file I missed?

Or is there a way I can just skip over that one missing archive file and retrieve the information, with a loss of some?

Please help. I've already installed a few programs and files on my new partition, but I desperatly need to recover that file. Otherwise Im going to lose 7gig of client information, website designs, fonts, etc (Im a programmer)

 

[Wink1996]

HI.. sounds like you made the same mistake I did. Not to worry though. There are lots of programs out there but the one that worked best for me was RecoverLostData. I was able to find all of my old files and back them up onto CD. Give it a try as you have nothing to lose at this point.

Wink1996

 

[Nyture]

Ok, thanks. Is that generally available in stores? Also, is there perhaps a free program that will allow me to recover data from my deleted partition?

 

[Wink1996]

There is a free download but it will only let you find out if your data and partition is recoverable. Unfortunatlely you will have to purchase the program (via downlaod or cd)in order to recover anthing. I decided that it was worth the 40 bucks to get my files back. Good luck
Go to Stompsoft.com and click "free downloads" then "Recover lost data"

Wink1996

 

[Nyture]

Are there any free programs that can do it? im on a extremely tight budget

 

[kiddpete]

If you find a free one that works, please post back. It might be useful to know where one can get a free, but valuable, program to recover files from a reformatted, repartitioned drive.