partition magic help

[teknomuffin]

Alright, I'm pretty dissappointed with the "good" reputation PM8.0 had. I recieved it, and in an attempt to resize a partition on my primary hard drive, it was a success, except for one extremely major thing. The drive I had kept my 'My Documents' folder on, along with about 200GB of other information, including music, pictures, school work, etc. has been destroyed. The format is now "Type EE", which I've looked and looked online but it seems I'm the only one with this error. When I try doing anything to the drive I get an error 631. What really bugs me is that this drive wasn't even part of the freaking partition I was resizing, so why would it have been corrupt. I can't do any chkdsk or whatever because my computer doesn't recognize it, not even in Device Manager.

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6149/47268811.jpg

That's an image of the drive and it's properties. I'm totally lost and I need IMEDIATE help.

I've been copying and pasting the above on a few different support forums, but since this is a more technical one, is there a way I can check if the data is still on there? I can't use cmdpromt stuff because it's an unknown format, any ideas if I remove the hard drive and plug it back in, or maybe fix it with the windows disk? I'm runnign Windows XP Pro 64-bit.

[Niclo Iste]

Just curious but what is the model and brand of the hard drive? This may shed light on what the issue is. The only other thing that comes to mind is possibly checking the drive for any corruption from bad sectors.

[Jessica22]

Hi. I know the partition magic but I have not used it. Now I think you should use software to scan your disk if could find the lost files. I think sector by sector scanning is suitable. The software EASEUS Data Recovery is OK to recover.