Lost drive image files on a "raw" drive

[tonyzapp]

I was attempting to install WindowsXP a reformatted RAID in my computer. I had an image saved to my external drive. I'm not sure how or why it started, but Windows started to install on my external drive. I freaked out and shut it off. Windows now recognizes the exteranal as RAW. And since I already split a RAID on the internal drives, that data is no good.

The only data on the external was the drive image (no OS, no other files) with extensions of .000 .001...etc. There should be about 18 files total on the drive and most of them should be 1.95GB in size. I've tried following the directions in the sticky post, but that doesn't have seemed to helped. It found one file that was a 341K jpeg file, and it says that it is a corrupt file. Is there anything else I can do or try???!?
The only other thing I can think to try is to quick format the drive competely (since I shut it off last time) and try searching again after that.
Please help!!!

[GDH]

If you have run Recover My Files and tried a Complete Format Recover on the physical drive for the default selected file types and it did not find your files, then there is probably not much more you can do.

It is likely that the image files are still on the drive, but it would be necessary to recover them by hand. I would depend on how much the first file was overwritten by the new Windows installation as to whether they could be used for any further recovery. The first file is probably to corrupt, so I doubt it. Sorry for the bad news.

[tonyzapp]

I guess I wasn't too clear on that one...Windows didn't actually start to install, just the quick format started.
I tried a few more things with the search on your program and still wasn't able to come up with anything. I tried another data recovery program and it was able to find the file table, so I'm back in business (mostly).

Thanks for the time. This forum is great. It's awesome that you give this much support to customers and ******ial customers. Two thumbs up!