Accidental quick format of a partition in Win XP

[EhBeeSee]

Hey all you experts out here, hope you can help me out here.

I have quick formatted a partition unintentionally in Windows XP. For recovery, i've tried Easy Recovery Pro(doesn't recover anything), Lost and Found (hangs when the second disk is inserted, i have the HD hooked up to the onboard controller with no RAID setup, plus i have over 14GBs on said partition).

At this point, i am feeling quite desperate, but not desperate enough to fork out big bucks to a recovery service. Does anyone have a suggestion or some experience like mine.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[wolluf]

http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/rescue/index.html

might be worth a try. (You don't say what filestore was before & what you've quick formatted it to).

 

[EhBeeSee]

Sorry about the lack of info. Filestore? what is that.
before the format, partition was NTFS in XP and mounted as a folder without a drive letter. I then quick formatted it to ntfs and then deleted the partition. it is now a unpartitioned space that hasn't been accessed since.

 

[jmatt]

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS
file systems. The current version 3.x replaces the previous version 2.x, which is now over
6 years old.
Files accidentally deleted or any data from a formated hard disk, Zip, Jaz or floppy disk, can
be recovered along with original folder names and file Create and Modified dates within minutes.

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http://home19.inet.tele.dk/svolaf/utilities.htm

I have never seen ANYTHING like this particular freeware device driver. While only weighing in
under 2k, and taking up about 3-5k of memory, this little device driver scans your entire
drive for lost partitions, it then assigns read-only drive letters to them to allow you to
recover data.