please HELP urgent

[suria]

please please help.. i lost all my data

I resized the partition of C:250gig drive to

150GB NTFS (my xp and data in here)
90gb FAT32 - primary
10gb FAT32 - shared Logical drive

using Acronish Disk Director SUite
then i rebooted using the funtion in Acronish disk director ..
it analysed two partitions sucessfully and found error in SHared paritition..

then i restrated the computer it showed up nothing ....
my data is lost now.. i tried to get it by switching the hard drive to external..but i could not able to access it... when i doubled clicked on the drive it asking to FORMAT THE DRIVE..

i tried xp repair funtion didn't work... said that there are unrecoverable problems and tried other recovery softwares no use.. wen i try to install xp it only showed 120gb (unallocatted) avialble to install

I Have not FORMATED the drive yet..

please advice me.. thank u

[MudCrab]

What version and build of DD are you using?

When you boot to the DD CD and look at the drive, does DD show any partitions or is it all unallocated or shown as corrupt?

Have you tried the Partition Recovery Wizard in DD to see if it can find the partition?

It sounds like you started the procedure in Windows and it needed to reboot. It also sounds like you did all the procedures and then tried to process them all at once. Both of these are bad ideas. Any partition operation that involves the Windows partition should be performed by booting to the DD CD. And it's generally better to do each procedure step-by-step, waiting for successful completion before doing the next one.

Also, a data or image backup is highly recommended before doing any partition procedures as data loss can happen if something goes wrong.

[suria]

what is DD.. sorry i m new to this forum..

my hard drive has 120GB un allocated paritition and rest in another paritition
i have backup of xp system state and windows in a DVD
can i reboot using those?? will this rearange and detect paritition and roll back eveyrthing.. is it possible to see my data later on?
i dont know.. im lost..

could you please recommend someting..

should i go to pc world it will cost me more than £150 damn..?? will they recover all my data??

pls let me know
tanks

[MudCrab]

DD = Disk Director.
TI = True Image.
OSS = Acronis OS Selector.

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I'm not sure what you mean by a "system state" and "windows" backup on DVD. Is this a TI image or a backup with another backup program?

There are several recovery programs available that you can try for free to see if you can recover any files. However, if you're not comfortable experimenting with this and your files are important, it may be better to seek professional help with the recovery.

Here are several recovery program links:
Recover My Files (http://www.recovermyfiles.com/)
R-Studio (http://www.r-studio.com/)
Salvage Recovery (http://www.salvagedata.com/salvage-windows/)
ParetoLogic Data Recovery (http://www.paretologic.com/products/datarecovery/pro/index.aspx)
There are others too and you may even be able to find some free recovery programs.

Whatever you do, don't format the drive or make any more changes to it. Any partition or writing operations can make it more difficult or impossible to recover any files.