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| 111565 | 2003-01-08 08:32:00 | Helpful reply, Merlin - answered some of my points. Dave, can you confirm a couple of Merlin's inferences - did you use NTFS with Win 2000, and did you do the reformat from a Win 9.x bootup? These answers should establish the file system structures on the 2 partitions. If things are as Merlin has deduced, then presumably using a suitable Unformat facility should recover the directory and file system records but I assume that the NU 6 files that I offered would not do the job because I doubt if they could handle FAT 32. There may be later DOS-based versions of NU or PC Tools or something that would do so - the disadvantage of using a Windows-based version is that you have to mess around applying and removing the Lock command to get direct disc writing access. The Dskprobe solution would appear to be problematical because it relies on knowing the exact start and end cylinders of the original partition (even though the partiton should still be intact), although that information might be available through Fdisk. It seems that performing a successful unformat would be the best way to go although it might mean reinstalling either Win 98 or Win 2000 in FAT32 mode. Recovering >12MB of data file-by-file would be a bit of a mission, especially if it were to floppies. Do you have a CD-R installed that you could use to transfer the data to disc? Merlin, do Lost and Found and Easyrecovery Pro recover files one at a time as does Runtime mentioned in littledevil's earlier post? Wouldn't it have saved a lot of trouble if it had occurred to the M$ nerds to include, in the Win 2000 installation instructions, a warning about installing onto a disc with multiple FAT32 partitions? |
Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 111566 | 2003-01-08 09:15:00 | >Wouldn't it have saved a lot of trouble if it had occurred to the M$ >nerds to include, in the Win 2000 installation instructions, a warning >about installing onto a disc with multiple FAT32 partitions? Then again..... You could always program your own operating system. I have managed to install Win2000, WinXP, Win98SE, Win98 and various versions of Linux on multiple FAT32 partitions. Backup here is the best thing to think about. Make sure you backup all documents, downloads, favourites, Emails, MP3s or whatever before you do something drastic. |
Elephant (599) | ||
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