I got home late a few nights ago, and my wife has a laptop from one of her friends that had a dead motherboard. She wanted me to recover any data that I could. Simple enough, it had been running win98, and was not full. I pulled the drive, and stuck it in my system (before getting some sleep so I could think straight) and grabbed my XP cd to load XP to another directory. When the install started there was 1400 MB of unallocated space. Great, I will create a new partion there, and not even touch the old partition. In my sleep deprived, not really paying attention state, I told it to format both partition “NTFS – Quick”. Did I mention, OOPS!!
Now I am trying to find suggestions for ways to recover the data from the partition that has been formatted. I have an unused copy of Lost and Found here somewhere, if I can find it. I got it on clearance about a year ago, and thought that it might come in handy sometime, and for $10 bucks, I thought, “What the heck.” Other than finding that package, does anyone have any other suggestions???