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Content of Hard disk is gone and FS changed into FAT32 from NTFS

Asked by AshuraKnight in Hard Drives & Storage

Hi there.

I really need a help here.

Yesterday I went to my friend house with my Hard disk (Maxtor 60 GB ATA 133) which under NTFS File System and usually it's used with ATA 133 Cable (onboard Ata 133 Promise).
Tried to plug it in into her computer, detected in BIOS and windows but cannot display the disk drive and also the content off course. It might be because her motherboard only support ATA 100 and SATA.
(Her Hard disk is seagate 120 GB formatted using NTFS file system).
Going back home with my Harddisk and her brother Harddisk on hand (his hard disk is seagate 80gb using NTFS file system)

Starting the computer then suddenly comes out the Chkdsk before Logon Screen.
I thought, ew it must be her brother hard disk which is using Fat 32 system got disk error or something (ntfs never using chkdsk, am i right ?) --> at this point I still don't realize that his hard disk is under NTFS also. -.-
So I just let it run. ( I didn't notice that it might be my hard disk drive X:)
Then when I start windows explorer. My secondary hard disk volume (the ata 133 one's X: )  displayed in strange character and got junk in it and my existing files gone !
And the file system changed into fat32. Furthermore the capacity become only 19 gb total (should be 60gb) with 18gb used space and 1 gb free space.

Tried using "convert" utility from windows XP pro (my operating system) to change back into NTFS
looks ok but comes with error message that it need /f option to fixed the corrupted file.
The command I've used is :

C:\> CONVERT  x:  /fs:ntfs


Take out her brother hard disk (the 80 GB one).
Start it up again, and the volume label comes back but without the content.
Nothing there. No junk and no files ! T.T
and the total capacity still only 19gb (18gb used and 1gb free)

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Today I've try use the Partition Magic 8.0 (the idea is converting FAT32 to NTFS using PM) but the drive is shown as Dynamic Drive (PM can't access Dynamic Drive). Then I go to Disk Management from Control Panel and realize that My Hard disk is become Dynamic Drive with Simple Layout. I wonder how it could've become Dynamic Drive
since I never use "convert to dynamic" command there ???


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I'm now trying File Recovery from PC Recover.
It can show the junk I've mentioned before in Deleted Folder.
I've try to restore one of them. But the size of the restored file is 1.9GB and with junk (strange char) filename and no extension.

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What should I do if I want to restore my data on this hard disk ?
I'm pretty sure that the data is the 40 GB capasity hide under NTFS fs so it's not shown when it's still under FAT32 fs.

Thank you.

PS: I'm pretty sure I could reformat this disk and it will be ok. But I need the content back if it's possible!



 
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