TestDisk was the very first thing that I tried and I followed the steps exactly. Sadly, it didn't work.
Screenshot attached as requested.
http://www.filehost.org.uk/download....screenshot.JPG
After I couldn't do anything with TestDisk and File and Mount, I tried R-Studio, which HAS found the 170GB partition. However, as a friend advised me and as it says in R-Studio's help files:
Quote:
NEVER TRY TO SAVE RECOVERED FILES/FOLDERS ON THE SAME LOGICAL DISK WHERE THEY RESIDE!!!
Or you may obtain unpredictable results and lose all your data.
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What would be the risk in recovering them to the same partition? I only have one hard drive so I can't recover them to anywhere else.
Additionally, after more searching, I found this:
http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101625.asp - "How to fix an Unallocated Partition"
According to that, it's as simple as making a new partition and telling Windows not to format it first. Would this work or would there be a risk involved?
More help required please, but thank you for helping so far.