Nope, no backups...
I have made the biggest mistake, as the HDD was my backup of everything, i sync my pc with it, move stuff there when i need to archive, and i had this great idea to see if ihad duplicates and temps on the drive...
Well, now i am dataless =(
Own fault entirely, in more than one way...
As far as i can see, the data is still there, its the partition that is damaged, many of these restore data programs can get it back, i have tried them all on trials, but the best ones that find it all are expensive...
And another problem is, i dont have like 350GB of free HDD space any place...
Still not found the solution to this, as XP cant detect the partition, however partition magic can and selected data restorers...
Think an important lesson has been learnt here, a very important one...
I forgot about using linux to get the data back, or try, I will try my Fedora VMWARE installation first, then that disc. Dont hold much hope for Fedora as the host cant see the HDD, so doubt the guest will...