I have a NTFS drive which was my data drive. I went to reinstall
window on a second drive (thinking my data drive would be safe because
it's on a completely seperate hard drive) but, somehow, I picked the
wrong drive by mistake and ended up formatting and installing windows
xp on my data drive (I swear it said C:\Windows on the drive I picked).

I've still got my original windows on another partition and have booted
up using my old windows, but I'm wondering if there is any chance I can
recover the data on the data drive which has been reformatted and had a
version of windows xp loaded onto it.

Can you suggest anything or is all lost?

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"Bobbie Weeks (Ms)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have a NTFS drive which was my data drive. I went to reinstall
> window on a second drive (thinking my data drive would be safe because
> it's on a completely seperate hard drive) but, somehow, I picked the
> wrong drive by mistake and ended up formatting and installing windows
> xp on my data drive (I swear it said C:\Windows on the drive I picked).
>
> I've still got my original windows on another partition and have booted
> up using my old windows, but I'm wondering if there is any chance I can
> recover the data on the data drive which has been reformatted and had a
> version of windows xp loaded onto it.
>
> Can you suggest anything or is all lost?
>