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Lori - 26 May 2004 20:50 GMT

I am trying to run the recovery program without
fdisking. At first it said it could not find a hard
drive, then I tried again and it continued but it aborts
with the message 'file allocation bad'. What does that
mean. I did have my system upgraded to windows 2000 a
couple years ago, but went back to win 98. It says I
have FAT32 file system. What should I do.

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Jeff Richards - 27 May 2004 00:21 GMT

What recovery program are you referring to? Why do you need to use a
recovery program? If there is a possibility that the hard drive might be
faulty you should rule that out before proceeding any further - get some
hard disk drive diagnostics from the manufacturer's www site to confirm that
the drive is functioning correctly. For most recovery procedures there is
no point in trying to to do it without FDISK, as all data on the disk is
deleted in any case.

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> I am trying to run the recovery program without
> fdisking. At first it said it could not find a hard
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> couple years ago, but went back to win 98. It says I
> have FAT32 file system. What should I do.

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