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Recoveing a 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.
Jim - 21 Apr 2004 17:21 GMT
? http://www.partition-recovery.com/partition.htm

I'd first try to determine if the old partition and data can even be
detected, i.e., is *potentially* recoverable.  A lot depends on how far the
format process got before you hit Ctrl-C. I don't think the above costs
anything to simply examine the HD, you only pay for the actual recovery.

HTH

Jim

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