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Old February 27th, 2005, 11:03 PM
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After converting what does your disk look like now? Are you able to access sny of the data at all?
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Old February 28th, 2005, 03:05 AM
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I don't want to open up a can of worms here as it looks like Murf has things well in hand. I just wanted to ask if maybe they have tired to mount the fat16 partition with linux. You can mount fat16 in linux and maybe be able ti extract the data then do away with the useless partition.
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Old February 28th, 2005, 03:51 AM
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bAdWaYz

I am not familiar with Linux, maybe explain how to do that. He will be back on line later this evening. He has Linux on it.
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Old February 28th, 2005, 04:26 AM
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Fat32win

Thank you Joe,

I have recieved your program,

Should I run it on D: Drive,
Or any drive, Is there any possibility that it would affect my data?

I have bought a software called GetDataBack, which did show all of my files,
Then I recovered many of files, Out of which approx 95% files were CURRUPT, So I wasted my $69,

Is there any software which I should try before, converting my disk or converting to fat32 will definately recover my data ( I was little concerned by Jaak's Post ) ???

Please Guide
Thank You,
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Old February 28th, 2005, 04:30 AM
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About Linux Mounting

Hello badwayz,

The first thing I did was, to try accessing my partition through linux,
As my linux partition was also gone, I tried Knoppixx(which runs from CD), but It also showed my drives same ways as windows did.

My original mandrake linux is now gone, but I still have Knoppix 3.7, can it help anyway?

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Old February 28th, 2005, 04:41 AM
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Just read up on GetDataBack, pretty powerful program. Appears that when Windows 98 tried to install, it somehow converted your drive to FAT 16, I do not know how, but somehow it did. It may of damaged data in the process.

Not familiar at all with Linux, what I knoiw about Linuz you can put in an aspirin bottle and it would get lost in there, so appears you are, maybe try to mount the drive before trying to convert it as suggested by bAdWaYz. Might be able to recover some other data, if not try converting it, what do you have to loose at this point.
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Old February 28th, 2005, 04:51 AM
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I ran fat32win
I selected D: Drive,
And I got the message that, "This drive is already a Fat32 drive", when I clicked Scan.
What should I do?

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Old February 28th, 2005, 04:59 AM
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Wow, this is unbelievable. Run FDISK again has anything changed from the first time??

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Old February 28th, 2005, 05:16 AM
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Hello murf,
I again ran fdisk, everything is exactly same,
And I still get the error on fat32win

It actually recognize the D: Drive as FAT32.
This like this

D: FAT32 4102MB
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Old February 28th, 2005, 05:18 AM
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In "My Computer" the "D" partition is not seen now?
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Old February 28th, 2005, 05:20 AM
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It's exactly the same as it was in previous screenshot
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Old February 28th, 2005, 05:31 AM
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I am still befundled on the FAT 16 vice FAT 32. I have seen this happen with the CIH virus. There is a FREE tool out there, that maybe you should try on the D drive:

http://www.grc.com/fix-cih.htm
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Old February 28th, 2005, 06:32 AM
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Unhappy All I could achive is failure

Hello Murf,

I tried this tool too, got one more failure(my god what happened to my system, I was really living happily before)

This is what I got




When I clicked Ignore, and proceeded after two steps, I got this :





God bless computers.
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Old February 28th, 2005, 06:55 AM
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Oh well was worth a shot.

Lets recap as this is getting long.

You have one hard drive 80GB and it has three partitions (at least it did)

Partition 1 C: Windows XP (34GB)
Partition 2 D: Non O/S (36GB)
Partition 3: Linux (4.5GB) Is/was this drive E:?

FDISK shows the following:

C: 35.4GB FAT 32
D: 40.5GB FAT 32
Non-Dos (Linux) 447MB

Windos XP shows:

C: 37.7GB
D: 39.55GB
Non-Dos (Linux) 447MB

Partition Magic shows:

C: 35.4GB FAT 32
D: 40.4GB FAT

Partition Table Doctor Shows

C: 35.4GB FAT 32 Win XP
D: 4110KB FAT 32
Free Space: 36.3GB

Very confusing, each program see's something different.

Although it appears that the D: partition is there you cannot access it.

Is this where we are???
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Old February 28th, 2005, 07:02 AM
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Let me take a wild stab here;

1. Click START then RUN

2. In the Open box type cmd, then click OK

3. At the command prompt, type the following

mountVol /D and then press enter
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