this is my proublem i had two PHYSICAL hard drives a 12gig with two partishions in fat 32 and a 80gig with 8 partions in fat32 and one in ntfs the WINDOWS xp one any ways i migrated these two hard drives to a new computer the new computer had no hard drives of it own the 12gig hard drive on partion c: had the operating system the migrtion was a success windows could see the hard drives with no proublem win98 i started to put all the drivers in it asked for the mass storage driver so not thinking i put the cd in that came with my western digtial 80gig hard drive for some ODD reason it started to do some sort of auto run i quit it at the first chance i had. then the proublem arose aparently it took the first partion off of each had drive and put them on the small 12gig hard drive and lost the d: partion that was on the small hard drive it didnt actully move the partion it created a new file aloction table but that is not all it did it also marked the remaing partions on the larger as one giant fat 12 and marked it as free space. the qustion is, is it possible to reverse the damaged that was done to my file aloction table and if so how. i have tryed a few demos of data recovery programs but they are all tricked by the new file allcton table becouse they do not regester the change how could i retrieve the 80gigs of info or fix the file allction table where the data is acceseble agian. please help thank you feel free to send me email related to this topic thank you.This would be a lot easier to read if you used paragraphs, better punctuation and an occasional capital letter.

This is probably not salvageable, but you can try this. There is a trial version:

http://www.ptdd.com/


If that data is not irreplaceable, it sounds like the best SOLUTION would be to delete ALL of the partitions and start over.