Last night I was going to do a clean install of Win2000 on my triple booting system.

I booted to the DOS prompt in Win98 and formatted the wrong drive thus wiping my WinMe installation.

I quickly booted into Win98, install PC Inspector Recovery and scanned the drive partition that WinMe was installed on.

It found some 100 folders with about 5000 files.

The top level folder for each is called Cluster nnnnnnn where nnnnnnn represents a cluster number.

As it was now 1.45am I decided to leave all alone and get some sleep.

Is this as good as it gets, is there some way to unformat or do I just have to save all those Cluister nnnnnnn folders.

My last backup using ghost was done on 17th August so potentially we're talking 11 days of file changes / mail etc.