deleted part of my girlfriends thesis - HELP

From: Henning Dalgaard (dalle_at_SPAMstofanet.dk)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:26:28 +0200

I have a laptop with 2 partitions and after I ran Compaqs system recovery to
reinstall WinXP I saw that it deleted my e-drive where my documents where.
Is it possible to recover the docs even after a format, and even after I
have made a new partition (thought I had backup so I made a new partition
with partition magic, but there is one important excelfile that I am
missing).
Since I am using a laptop, I dont have the option of taking the drive out
and putting it in another pc. I have a usb drive that I can connect to my
laptop though.
Help greatly appreciated!

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