I need to restore the data on a drive that I deleted the part ion. I
HAVE NOT FORMATED THIS DRIVE. I found software that can see the data
and clamed to be able to restore it but they want $300.00.
What is the cheapest way to do this?

Hello:
  Well, this is a situation many of us must face once in life so here
is some help:
  
Active@ Partition Recovery 
http://www.partition-recovery.com/

And is a really cheap product (29.99 US$ Single License):

Pricing & Licensing  
http://www.partition-recovery.com/price.htm  

Check out it's features:

Major Features
http://www.partition-recovery.com/features.htm#PRO

If you want a free solution (I haven't tried myself) you could try
this:

Free Software and Utilities
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html

MBRWork 1.07a 
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/MBRWORK.ZIP

"MBRWork is a utility to perform some common and uncommon tasks to the
MBR/EMBR/Sectors of a hard drive. It should only be used by power
users who understand how computers work. The readme.txt file in the
zip contains a list of the tasks available."

Extract from the readme.txt:

"If no partitions exist in the MBR and no EMBR exists then this option
will allow you to recover lost FAT, HPFS, NTFS, and Extended
partitions."

I hope this helps, and don't hesitate to ask for any clarification.

Search Strategy

partition recovery
://www.google.com/search?q=partition+recovery&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0

Regards.

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Request for Answer Clarification by heathbn-ga on 11 Sep 2002 11:37 PDT

it restored the pations but the drive says it is not formated.
how do i recover the data i know is thier but the partion dose not list.

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Clarification of Answer by joseleon-ga on 11 Sep 2002 23:43 PDT

Hello:
  Could you please, tell me how you deleted the partitions? which
program you used? what did you do exactly?
Also, what program have you used to recover the partitions? Have you
followed that program instructions? The recovered partitions are of
the same size of the deleted ones?

Regards.

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Request for Answer Clarification by heathbn-ga on 03 Nov 2002 14:02 PST

the partition is unrecovable the drive has not been formated and i
need a progam that can scan the drive and recover the data to a
differant drive.

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Clarification of Answer by joseleon-ga on 03 Nov 2002 23:39 PST

Hello:
  Could you answer my previous questions,please? 

Could you please, tell me how you deleted the partitions? 
which program you used to do that? 
what did you do exactly?
Also, what program have you used to recover the partitions? 
Have you followed that program instructions? 
The recovered partitions are of the same size of the deleted ones?

You didn't provide me the information I needed to fully answer your
question. I'm sorry you rated me so low, but I can't help you if you
don't provide more information.

Regards.