Formated FAT32-Disk ! How to Unformat ?
Alexander Waller
What are the tools ? How can I do it. Is it even possible ?
I installed some software, but I need some old data, as much as possible.
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Alex
Greg
data on the hard drive.
Jeff Richards
starting with the logical drives in the extended partition (if any), then
the extended partition, then the primary partition. Run FDISK again, and if
it asks a question about enabling support for large hard disks, answer No.
Then re-create the partitions.
This procedure will delete everything on your hard disk. You must have a
bootable floppy with FDISK and FORMAT on it, as well as the drivers for you
CD, in order to re-install Windows.
Partition Magic (http://www.powerquest.com/) can do this for you without
losing all your data on that hard disk. If any of your partitions are larger
than 2Gb then PM allows you to re-size them before converting.
Alexander Waller wrote in message
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Alexander Waller
Good. Then I don´t have any data anymore. But on the disk there was fat32
and my data. Then I formated the wrong disk. So everything is gone. I want
to retrieve my old data. I don´t want to repartition my disk and I don´t
want to delete it.
I know the data is on the disk ( most of it ). Only the FAT is new. And I
want my old FAT back. ( Unformat ? )
So I hope it is much clearer now ?!
Alex
Jeff Richards schrieb in Nachricht ...
Jeff Richards
utilities can do this, and there may be other products. A search of the www
should be a good starting point. Make sure you get the version that is
compatible with FAT32.
Sorry I completely misinterpreted your original message.
Alexander Waller wrote in message
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Greg
You might try to locate an MSDOS 6.22 boot disk and try to recover with
that MS-DOS version's UNFORMAT command. Success will depend on what
application formatted the drive originally and whether 'unformat'
information was saved at that time. If UNFORMAT fails you will need
either
help from a 3rd party recovery utility (recent version of Norton
Utilities
or equivalent)or a data recovery service.
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In article <780b9e$8pc$1...@fleetstreet.Austria.EU.net>,
"Alexander Waller" <a.wa...@webpoint.at> wrote:
> Hi !
> What are the tools ? How can I do it. Is it even possible ?
> I installed some software, but I need some old data, as much as possible.
>
> Please post in this newsgroup but also CC to al...@maxonline.at.
>
> Alex
>
>
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