HD Issues. HELP!!

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I got a dumb idea to do a clean install of Win98 on my rig. I use FDISK to
get rid of the NTFS file system on the primary drive. On the secondary
drive, I have a lot of file I keep for storage purpose (pics, files, mpegs,
etc.).

Problem is when I did the FDISK I must zoomed through a question or two and
missed some things about my secondary drive containing error. It said it
fixed something and that's all I can remember.

I have since reinstalled XP but the secondary drive is now showing up as a
unknown system. When I try to view the files on the drive the system say the
drive is not formatted.

I know the drive did not go through a format process. Can I somehow tell
this drive that an NTFS in on the drive or something along these lines to
gain access to the files?
 
I use a partition magic boot disk to handle the formating. Does it in a few
seconds and then I can proceed in installing windows xp, there are several
boot disks available on www.bootdisk.com that has tons of utilities to use.
 
You may want to look at some data recovery programs. I am not sure if
the partition table can be recovered, but I do know that there are many
data recovery programs that can read the disk as if it were NTFS or just
read the RAW data. OnTrack is my personal favorite from www.ontrack.com ;)
 
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