After rebooting XP Home my storage drive is unavailable

[Ocotalrunner]

I had to recover from a recent crash by creating a new copy of XP home onto the previous version located on the C drive. My D drive was just a storage drive that now is only referred to as Disk 1 and was somehow erased! No partitions or anything else shows and now my CDROM and DVD Reader/writer drive have all moved up from their previous E and F locations to D and E on the My Computer window.
#1 Can somehow recover that previous partition that contained all my family's picture files that aren't available with the Disk 1 showing all the 160 GB as unallocated space whereas precrash it had 90GB of pix and storage of multiple short videos off my digital camera?
#2 How can I make that drive once a storage device and perhaps reset all the previous drive letters?

 

[r_manic]

Regarding 1, the best suggestion I have is to try TestDrive.

Regarding 2, you can change the drive letters assigned to your hard disks/partitions through Windows Disk Management. Press Windows + R, type in "diskmgmt.msc", then press Enter.