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Gabriel Menini
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.
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.