I installed Knoppix in my HD. Before the partitioning tool was run I had the following partitions:

/dev/hda1 (win1)
/dev/hda2 (linux)
/dev/hda5 (win2)

I didn't have a swap partition for the previous Linux installation since it was only for trying it out. Since I am now thinking about switching to Linux, I removed /dev/hda2 which was 5GB and created two new partitions with one of them being a swap partition of 500MB.

So in the partitioning tool, I was shown the following information:

/dev/hda1 (win)
/dev/hda2 (linux)
/dev/hda5 (swap)
/dev/hda6 (win2)

So when I clicked ok I came to a page where I was asked whether I wanted /dev/hda5 to use as a swap partition. I agreed since I thought that he would have rearranged the internal partition map. Only later I realized that there was a message after writing the partition table which was something like "The partition table was written to disk but couldn't be reloaded."

To cut it short: My old /dev/hda5 partition was taken as swap partition though the partition type is still Fat32. I cannot access my partition anymore even from within WinXP and I wonder whether all the data was lost or can I do something to get it back?