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Clonedsheep:
      Hi guys, I messed up bit time. I was going to reinstall windows xp into my main computer and I went to format the drive and I deleted both partitions, my master and slave.  I did type L to confirm. I realized what I did as I didn't want to delete my slave drive partition. I did not format it. I reinstalled windows to the master drive but now I don't know how to bring back my data from my slave. I am at the point where windows sees the slave drive but if I click it, it asks if I want to reformat it. I messed up...I have never done such a thing before. I usually just unplug the slave drive as a safety measure if it is that important. I am panicing and I am worried. All of my family pictures and important data is on this slave drive. I am using my arcade computer to type this. Perhaps you guys know of a free and trusted program I could use to restore the partition. Please help me guys and tell me it's going to be alright. thank you  :'(

orion:
I have never tried these programs before, but they are open source which in my experience is usually pretty good software. If I were you I would try this program first which finds deleted files. If it looks like its going to work make sure you save your data to another harddrive. http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/12/02/recover-deleted-files-with-ntfs-undelete/

If this doesn't work try something like this http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk  Like I said though, I have never used such a program as I usually try to back up all my important stuff in multiple places. Hopefully someone will chime who has some experience with this type of situation.

Clonedsheep:
Thank you for that. I will start checking it out. It just sucks because I have to wait till tomorrow to pick up another network card for my main computer. (i lost the driver apparently). To top it off, my little usb drive is not working in my Arcade computer. What a night!

ChadTower:

I clicked on this expecting something so much worse than a PC problem. 

Ginsu Victim:
Same.

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