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Recovering FAT32 partition...

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Gabriel Menini - 21 Apr 2004 05:57 GMT
Hello, there!

I am looking for some advice, due to a panic situation unleashed by
myself... :(

I used to have two partitions on a 20 Gb hard disk:
1st NTFS :  5Gb (C)
2nd FAT32: 15Gb (D)

Well, MS-Windows 2000 Professional had some awful trouble with some
ntdll.dll stuff, so I decided to roll-back into my old fashion MS-Windows98
SE installation.

The FAT32 15Gb partition have all the data I wasn't able to back-up, a bunk
of large files.
Everything was well planned:

Running fdisk in order to destroy the god-damn NTFS partition in C and to
create a brand new one FTA32 in that 5Gb free space.

Everything went fine untill I decided to format c: /s my fresh FAT32
partition (yes, I am still talking about that 5Gb partition, the 15Gb
partition *MUST* be kept untouchable).

But... and here's my fault, I forgot to switch unit names, so, I pressed
<ENTER> when asked to format the C partition and then realised that in fact
I was starting to format MY loved original D partition (15Gb)....

Needless to say... I panic!! Ctrl+C, and then reboot the machine...

No way, ran fdisk again and switched the drive names in the correct way. The
formatted the C (yes, now the 5Gb) partition and installed a fresh new one
MS-Windows98SE.

But now I can't access my 15Gb partition. I guess the data is still there, I
guess I only erased the FAT, the zero sector or whatever. Actually, I am
preaching for that...!!

The question is:

Is there any tool like 'unformat' or 'low-lever data recovery' such as
Norton or something like that?

Because Windows thinks it's a non-formatted unit and tries to format it!!
>:-(

I've installed PartitionMagic version 8 but I prefer to seach for any other
more powerful piece of software in order to try to recover my data.

Thanks In Advance and please apollogize for my despear.
Jeff Richards - 21 Apr 2004 06:56 GMT
The best partition recovery software I know of is here:
http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm

Are you sure you were formatting the 15Gb partition?  I would have thought
that deleting and re-creating the first partition was what made the 15Gb
partition inaccessible. If so, then re-creating the partition info is all
that's required.
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> Hello, there!
>
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> Thanks In Advance and please apollogize for my despear.
Gabriel Menini - 22 Apr 2004 15:27 GMT
Jeff Richards escribió:

> The best partition recovery software I know of is here:
> http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm
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> partition inaccessible. If so, then re-creating the partition info is all
> that's required.

Thanks, Jeff

Actually I am writing to Svend Olaff, the programmer and manteiner of
<http://www.partitionsupport.com/>.

He's a great guy, let's see what happens.... :)
 
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