Hard Drive problems

this is the problem :
In my hard drive i was using winxp and red hat linux, so i uninstaled the red hat linux from my harddisk and now i have big problems with the hard drive. the hard drive has 80 GB but no the system tells me that the harddrive is only 13 GB i can not see any of my data that i had on that hard drive, since the hard drive shows me only 13 GB i know that other data should be there but where?
I i am using some recovery software but all i can see from that soft is that i have to logical partitions in the hard disk.
What to do to save my data, i really don’t want to format the drive since i have some files that i use for my profession.
Thanks in advance

Welcome to hardwareforums Coldman :beer:

how did you uninstall red hat?
Does windows still start up?

Thanks for your wellcome.
i removed the red hat using the commands fixrmb and fixboot,
the windows was not starting with that hardware an error saying
NDLTR i missining, and after that to safe my data i changet the hardrive from master to slave but i still can not see the rest of the hard disk, i see only 35 MB of my hardisk.

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you’ve only removed the boot loader for Red Hat (presumably you typed them into Windoze recovery console)

red hat is still there & presumably the 13Gb is the size of the Windoze partition, i think you need to re-partition your HDD to allow Windoze to use the full HDD

or am i wrong ?

Edit: to use an existing master as a slave you need to change the boot order in the BIOS or make the HDD master again

Ok i saved my files thanks to one tool for Harddisk managment called: Partition Table Doctor.
Thanks for your help