Missing data... Please help!

It'll sound silly but... I wanted to try BootCamp on my MacBook while I was having two partitions, so notification appears that I have to have just one. I tried to use Disk Utility from applications menu, but I wasn't able to do anything at all. I moved all the data on my main (system) partition and decided to run Disk Utility from installation disk. After I deleted second partition (in Disk Utility) it automaticly connected it to the main one. I thought that it may damage some of my data so I went for deleting second partition and leaving it just as a 'free space', I locked my main partition for editing. After pressing 'Partition' I lost my data, but it still appears as there is 28.3GB used.
I created second partition again and installed system on it (without formating main partition certainly) to see that will I be able o copy/recover that lost data using Finder, but it's not displaying any files...
Disk Utility info shows:
Capacity : 29.6 GB (31,734,448,128 Bytes)
Free Space : 29.5 GB (31,704,821,760 Bytes)
Used : 28.3 MB (29,626,368 Bytes)
Number of Files : 10
Number of Folders : 4
It was whole system there so can't be just 10 files. If there are 10 files why I can't see even 1?
Macbook   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

When you repartition a drive you destroy all the data on the drive. Read the DU info more carefully: there's 28.3 MBs user, not 28.3 GBs. Trust me your files are gone. You can't see the 10 files because they are invisible.
If you want to use Boot Camp you must repartition the drive with one partition - the entire drive. The Boot Camp software will create the separate Windows partition for you. Please carefully read the Boot Camp documentation.

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