Crash Recovery - primary and extended partitions now unallocated (200g)

[HooperPC]

This drive had two partitions, booting to Win2K (NTFS) and had an extended partition (FAT32). A few days ago, my son was playing a recently installed game and the program crashed. The system was unresponsive so he rebooted the machine. Then he unwittingly launched a WIN2K CD that I had in an optical drive. He claims that he did nothing else. When I rebooted it a few days hence, it could not find a bootable drive. BIOS recognizes all drives, and a partition magic cd says the entire drive is 'unallocated space'. I stopped there to research the best recovery plan.

I could recover most file information from backup, but re-creating this machine would take days and would be a big pain in the ---.
Can I undo the bad?
Thanks very much in advance !!!

[GDH]

Hi,

Yes, you should be able to find all the files on this drive.

Please follow these instructions, or watch the step by step video, and let me know the results:

Recover a Formatted Drive with Recover My Files v4

Thank you.

[HooperPC]

Thanks. I downloaded the executable, and I will carefully review the instructions along with some other links (Microsoft, TechTarget) that I have read. I will give detailed feedback regarding the outcome of the recovery process . However, I am going to squeeze this in between work, wife, kid's soccer(football), and my moonlit computer side business. I hope to be responsive by early next week.

With appreciation,
Harrison