I made a mistake, a huge mistake.

Ladies and Gents,

**Note the following is the story of what happens when a network admin tries to pretend to be a "hardware" guy. It is also the story of what happens when said Network Admin makes a huge mistake because it is his(said admin) home PC so who needs to worry right. Said person below would like all to hold comments, leering, and general laughing to a minimum.


Onward:

I was trying to install Fedora Core 6 to dual boot on my home machine. However, I was having some partition issues. So I decided to use UBCD to go ahead and resize a partition and move an old small partition(FAT32) Apparently during the process of trying to get this to work I deleted the Partition holding XP PRO. Of course, I thought that I would be able to use one of the many free utilities on the internet to bring back the partition, I was wrong. When I did bring back the partition it didn't neccesarily bring back the whole partition.

Essentially my question here is how, how oh hardware guru's am I going to get back all of my files. I am fine with a fresh reinstall, but lets be honest here: 4.5Gb's in Music, Over 2 Gb's in training video's paid for and downloaded off of the internet. 5 years worth of homework, and homework projects which have been useful to keep in the past. As you can see I would really love to have this stuff back.

I have tried every freeware program that I could find to restore at least the documents off of the harddrive and to no avail. I also purchased a solution which I now believe to be a scam as their tech support cannot seem to give me the proper key code to actually use the full version of the program.

If anyone has any ideas of what I can try or do too get this back up and running, please, please, please tell me.


Thanks,


LR