How to rescue data from a dropped partition

[bagofbones]

I restalled XP on my machine. I format C drive and droped D drive.Unfortunately, I found I have some data on D. Now they are all gone. Is any possible way to rescue those data.Thanks a lot.

[Aaron]

You'll need to use Data recovery software. I would recommend Ontrack's software for this. (Make sure you install it to the C:\ drive)

[bagofbones]

It is not free.

[Justice]

Try a program called PC Inspector:File Recovery. It is free.

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm

[gosh]

I highly recommend r-studio from www.r-tt.com. It's recovered destroyed partitions for me before that no other software could touch. It is expensive, but the trial version recovers files up to 64k big. It's well worth the money.

-gosh