Hello I am in desperate need of help and I am inclined to believe there is none. I have a Mactor internal slave drive and what happened was during a reinstallation of Windows on my main drive the drivers for my Maxtor had been deleted when I went to use it it reformatted the drive. I went and used a file recovery program and it found everything perfectly well, well half way through the recovery it froze the program, when I went to restart it I found that the first half that it had been recovering saved onto the Maxtor drive and when I went to try and use the recovery program again it no longer detected the previous partition only the "new" half of files that had been recovered. This has everything that I have ever done on it, all my pictures of lost family members, my trip pictures, my writings I have ever done etc. Is there anyway, anyway at all there is hope of getting that back, it really is the most valuable things I possess and it seems very realistic they are lost forever, any help would be hugely and greatly appreciated, thank you.