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"PAM" <JunkMail@Fishnchips.com> wrote in
news:c1OS7.436$Li.68346@news02.tsnz.net: 

> Community,
> After the usual fiddling around with WinXP and screwing it up, I
> decided to reinstall the whiole thing over again right from
> partitioning my drives and formatting.
> However, upon deleting and reinputting the partitions using fdisk, I
> remembered that there were photos I had loaded onto the pc from my
> camera that I wanted saved. Everything else I could restore from backup
> but I hadn't backed these up.
> 
> Q: Is there a way of retrieving these photos? My PC is currently in a
> state of just created new partitions and not yet formatted the disk.
> Help would be appreciated.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 

The ONLY very outside chance you might have is using the following:

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html

Look down the page for a ZIP called MBRWork (v1.06), it can (essentially) 
scan for deleted partitions and can sometimes recover it.  As always, it 
takes a little luck, and hopefully your reinstallation didn't write to that 
specific area (or hasn't since posting).  All in the all, the chances of 
recovering are slim to none, but if desperate, it's worth a try.

HTH

-- Jim