Greetings,
You can try data recovery software: Partition Table Doctor or
DataRecoveryWizard.
These tools helped me, so give it a try. Really awesome soft!

http://www.ptdd.com
http://www.easeus.com

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Good work, Good day.


"Thomas, UK" wrote:

> Hi, I've searched the internet for a simple way to do this, but it seems it
> all revolves around paying for the privilege, hence I hope you can help. I
> introduced a new hard drive into my machine which was going to be the primary
> drive, along with a secondary hard drive which contained all my MP3, MPEGs,
> JPEGs, etc. And before I go further, the second HDD hadn't been backed up for
> new a year. As I type this, I now understand the importance and value behind
> backup!! Anyway, I inserted my Windows XP operating disk, and started the
> machine. It went through the usual start up procedure, asked me to format
> and partition the new hard drive BUT, for some unknown reason, when I was
> prompted to choose which HDD, I choose BOTH! So, I have deleted, but not
> formatted, my second HDD. I know when I chose delete Windows moved the
> first line of code on this HDD so that it's not recognised on the system as a
> partitioned HDD. Through various free tools on the internet, I have found
> all the files and folders on this drive, they're still there, but I now need
> to make this HDD realise it's a HDD again or recover these files and folder
> either onto the new HDD or onto CD. Can anyone suggest a way of doing this in
> Windows or anything else without having to pay 3rd party suppliers? The HDD
> has around 100Gb of data to recover, and the system is running XP Home
> Edition.