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FAT32 ACCIDENTLY GOT FORMATTED

I AM IN A BIG SOUP.
I HAD 2 PARTITIONS ON MY HDD C(NTFS) WHICH HAD THE APPLIACTIONS RUNNING ON IT AND D (FAT32) WHICH HAD THE DATA ON IT , THE SYSTEM WAS RUNNING ON WIN2K

THE SYSTEM WAS GIVING PROBLEM. I BOOTED THE SYSTEM WITH WIN98 CD
NOW THE SYSTEM RECOGNISED D: DRIVE SINCE IT WAS ON FAT32 AND SHOWED IT TO ME AS C:\> .I TOOK IT TO BE AS C: DRIVE (ORIGINAL) SO I FORMATTED IT JUST TO FIND THAT I HAD FORMATTED MY D: WITH ALL THE IMPORTANT DATA ON IT.
I FORMATTED IT USING QUICK FORMAT COMMAND

IS THERE ANY WAY OF MY ABLE TO RETRIEVE THE DATA

PLS PLS SOMEBODY HELP ON THIS.

Goldwing

Luckily the format command doesn't format, it just checks the drive/partition for errors and the rewrites the FAT/MFT.

Use PartitionMagic (http://www.powerquest.com/) to restore the partition.

You need Partition Magic 7 or 8 to fix this.

G´luck

rid

For future reference you may want to note that you cannot format an NTFS partition after booting to win98 - it's not even recognised. I find it works just as well to run win2000 on FAT32. It is much easier when you need to rescue something from the HD after a crash...

Regards
/RID

loral

You could have slaved that drive to another computer or drive with an NTFS drive as the master and this drive as the slave.

Then you could have seen the NTFS partition. As mentioned above, a non NTFS drive will be the C: drive if it exists, but booting to that will not allow you to see the NTFS partition(s).

Also, as mentioned, Partition Magic, as well as EZ Data Recovery by On-Track *should) allow you to repair or recover your partitions or data, as long as what you told us is all there is to the story.

Loral

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Goldwing

Damn CrazyOne, lemme call guinness book again.. you just broke your own record of most links on one page..

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CrazyOne

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payalgoel

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omg , that was overwhelming.I am totally impressed with crazyone (not to undermine others ).Crazy one if u dont mind can I have ur email address so that I can interact with u in case i want to discuss anything on IT .

I have downloaded restore and pc inspector exes will run it anymoment now and let u know the result.

thanks

payalgoel

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All the data on drive got resotred except for one folder .Now all I have to do is rename the clusters into meaningful folders.

thanks