NTFS conflicts with a FAT32 partition PLEASE HELP

tytan0

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About a month ago, I was using win98 SE and I decided to upgrade to winXP. After completing the installation, I tried to install Earthlink, and that didn't work. AOL Instant messenger didn't work either. So i formatted, and installed win98 SE again. Then last week, I got a friend's copy of winXP and installed it. Again, the same problems occured. And this time, windows media player didn't work along with the other programs.

Today, I formatted the drive, and installed win2000. I then installed winXP, and still, barely any programs work. This installation was different however, because the computer asked me to format my main partition as either NTFS or FAT32. I chose NTFS, and formatted and installed XP. I have another partition on that same drive (D:), and after XP was installed, i went to drive D, and the files that I have been desperately saving for the past years seem to be gone. Any suggestions on recovering them? PLEASE HELP. thanks.
 

Lord Evermore

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Those products won't recover files that have actually been formatted over, they only work for "deleted" files.

Ontrack Easy Recovery has been the most helpful utility I found for recovering files on a formatted partition. Of course if you've overwritten the drive with any other files, it will make it harder to retrieve the files.

Check the properties of the D drive, see if it shows as having NTFS formatting. It would be odd for Setup to format anything besides the primary partition.