NTFS conversion help

[fatogreboy]

I recently fully upgraded my system. I purchased almost all new hardware and built the system myself. I installed windows XP on my new harddrive, and used the NTFS file system. Unfortunately, my information on my old harddrive is in FAT32 format. Without realizing, I formatted the unused space on my old drive, and now my drive is split into a NTFS formated partition which is 32 GB and my old files, which are not even recognized by the OS. When I explore the drive, windows treats it as if it is a 32 GB partition. I cannot even find the old files through windows. I thought maybe a program like partition magic might be able to help me rescue the files, but I do not want to have to buy it if I dont need to. Any help will be appreciated.

 

[ninja fetus]

I'm not on a windows system, so my info may be a little off. You can access partitions from
Control panel-> Administrative Tools-> Computer management or something along those lines-> disk management. This should show every partition and you can do some work with partitions and drives inside.