unremoving a partition

[slinxy]

Hi

after spending hours backing up my data from my laptop, and neing tired and stupid, I removed the parition on my extrenal hdd by mistake via diskpart during xp setup, as soon as I thought about what I did, I unplugged it and replugged it to my desktop machine and the partition has been removed (doh!). is there a way to recreat the partition keeping the data on the drive as a prevs removed the partitions on my laptop drive.

Thanks

 

[slinxy]

thank you - will give it a blast

 

[slinxy]

I downloaded it, but it wont pickup my extrenal usb hdd. I not recreated the partition yet on the drive. Do I need to do that first?