Hard Drive Data Recovery Guide
This article has some tips and a list of programs you can use to recover data off of damaged or corrupted NTFS and FAT partitions on your hard drive.
I had forgotten that FDISK, in the process of checking the disk before it prompts you for the size of the partition, writes information to certain areas of the hard drive. This data writes over whatever might have been there before. Meanwhile, there I was, watching the ‘%complete’ counter and wondering why a little red warning flag kept going off in my brain? I restarted WinXP and waited for it to boot, and waited… and waited… Oops.
