i cant believe whats happened here please help if possible

luke007

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i have a 76gb hdd , i had it partitioned ito 3
C: 15gb with win xp installed (fat32)
D: 28gb (fat32)
E: 33gb (ntfs)

i thought of creating another small partition so i intended to delete the logical drive D using fdisk then create 2 logical drives where D was , so in fdisk i deleted the logical drive D , then created a 15gb logical drive , decided i did not want this partition this big so i went to delete the 15gb logical drive i just created and it did so , then pressed esc , and it looked as though the 15gb logical drive was still there , deleted it again and pressed esc and it was still there , thought this was not right so i booted into windows xp only to discover my Entfs) has disappeared .
Now im left with my C: with my OS installed on it and a drive which i cant access because it asks me to format it , i have not formatted it as i know this will wipe my data forever .
 

Wapp

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Jun 5, 2003
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Perhaps you should slave it to another computer to extract your data? Also, this probably belongs in the Computer Help forum, not the Security.
 

mechBgon

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Oct 31, 1999
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Wapp is correct, this thread fits better in Computer Help than Security, so it's being moved.

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