Oh great, are you serious. It only took a few seconds, so the data must still physically be on the disk.

So i shouldn't have followed the advice of post #2then? What should i have done instead for reference?

would a fixdisk /mbr or something similar fix the disk in this situation. It seems like it has lost its partition table or something. Which is why it thinks the space is unallocated.

anyone else any suggestions that might fix this?

MArk