I had managed to install a fresh copy of Windows XP this very morning, on a 160GB harddisk, partition into:

PRIMARY partition, C:\
EXTENDED with FAT32 E:\ (Where the Operating system was)
EXTENDED with NTFS F:\ (Where my backup files were before the installation)

I had moved the important files into F:\, and proceed by installating a fresh copy of windows xp home edition into e:\, reformatted through the setup.

However, the F:\ partition was not there when the installation is completed.

I urgently need some help. I attempted to recover the files via GetDataBack for NTFS, however it gave me this error:

Error 65284 reading partition (sector 304592400) of drive 'HD128:'(FSIFC:343) 00490774

Thanks in advance.