Added HDD, lost all back-up files on WIN XP

From: sloebie (thee_dove@yahoo.com)
Date: 03/16/03 

From: "sloebie" <thee_dove@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:19:01 -0800

I had a main drive (MD) and on my second drive(SS), partitioned half to
fat32 and half to NTFS. Well, I wanted to make sure I could reformat the
original drive, for a "sub-virus" per se, that was giving remote access to
my computer away w/o connections. Anyway, So, I decided to practice on an
extra drive I had. I disconnected the main drive, added an unused drive and
stuck the restore cd's in to "format" that drive. It didn't like the drive
(pin wrong) so it deleted my back-up drive utterly and restored the WINXP on
that drive!!!!

Two years of crucial, legal data-gone. When I had win95, I could get into
the dump files and at least extract info out of it, though hardly easy work,
but I can't find the way to access the deleted files from my back-up drive.
I read into it and all I get is this bogus info that because I had the drive
partitioned into half fat/NTFS, I have lost all options of regaining that
data.

Can anyone tell me that this IS NOT TRUE!!! Are there computer geek stores
that can retrieve it? Can I? Is there a program out there that can? I
NEED this info for litigations.

Thank you,
slobie

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