Desperate Plea - File System Expert Needed

Short Story: I have pictures on a unmountable partition that I want recovered.

Long Story (to the best of my recollection): Way back when I only owned one decent size hard drive, I was configuring my computer to dual boot with BeOS 5 and Windows 98. I played a tricky game of partition leap frog with my data and lost. I was trying to create partitions with fdisk and keep my documents from Windows intact. I was almost done.

I had BeOS installed on the upper part of the drive and empty space and the partition with the files in the lower and middle parts respectively. I copied my files into the BeOS partition and then booted into DOS to use fdisk and delete the files partition and merge it with the empty space to get a FAT32 partition in which to install Windows 98. Everything worked up until this point.

When I went to boot into BeOS, it was gone. The nearest I could tell, fdisk put the end of the FAT32 partition after the beginning of the BeOS partition. But by this time, it was too late as I had formated the FAT32 partition and any BeOS data that resided there was gone.

I would appreciate anyone's *expert* help on this. I can send you the drive if you feel up to the challenge. I can even work out monetary compensation, but I would like someone to give it a whole-hearted effort to retrieve the lost pictures on the partition. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Adam Smith