SOS : Accidentally deleted my entire FAT32 partition ...

Hi !
I accidentally deleted my entire FAT32 partition ( ~80 Gigs ), i wanted to delete a mount point, but i forgot the partition wall still mounted ...
i used rm -R themountpoint as root
it's FAT32, and i didn't write anything to the partition since then, my data isn't lost is it ?
how can i recover it ? ( from linux if possible )
i remember very long ago there were tools to recover the lost files, but file by file .. is there a way to "undelete" the files of the partition ? without having to save the files one by one on another driver/partition ( with 80gigs of musics and videos it'd be soo long .. )
i have a also have a WinXP partition on my computer if the necessaray tools are only available on windows ...
please help my, my "whole life" is on that partition ....
thanks
Last edited by chuckychuck (2008-12-27 13:37:02)

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