lost everything on my hd!

[Michael]

Hey everyone i am an idiot i was rushing through
reinstalling win xp and i clicked on fresh install and it
wiped the whole hd.
i have personal stuff on that drive thats been passed from
hd to hd dated by over 5 years ago.
i was just wondering if their was anyway of uninstalling
the new win xp and recovering the old sys.
if not what choises do i have in recovering this
information?
I was told i might be able to imaige the hd to view the
erased files?
or is their any other method out their for a person thats
in the same situation as me?
i didn't change the file sys conf. its still fat32 like it
was b4 this all happen.
thank you to anyone reading this and please help me.
Mike
..

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

Every minute you use the computer, you decrease the chances of recovering
any files you may want. Shut it down, NOW!

On another computer go to www.ontrack.com and check out EasyRecovery
Professional. It has never failed me. Read about how to implement it
carefully. You are going to want to create the boot floppy and recover from
there.

Good luck!

 

[cimex]

This might work for you. Free recovery program.
http://hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/~hcj58401/

Keep in mind that using your computer causes more laying down of data on the
HDD, so keep this to a minimum until you have resolved the lost data issue.

The next step, after using a recovery program, is a professional recovery
service, which usually charges a minimum of several hundred dollars.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

If you didn't install anything then the chances are good that you can
recover with decent recovery tool. If you actually installed XP then you
will have wiped out a lot of data but may well be able to recover some files
that did not get overwritten in the installation process. I use Disk
Commander from Winternals but it is very expensive.