[RESOLVED] HELP! I need to recover a quick formatted FAT32 partition...

[Cyberwiz]

Help!!! I accidently quick formated the wrong drive. There was two hard drives in the system and the second one had the important data (mp3's) and the first hard drive was to be nuked and reloaded. Partition on the first hard drive was deleted and the system was rebooted and then I typed OFORMAT C: /Q without thinking...poof...too late...no more mp3's

Can anyone help me out on what program can rebuild the FAT tables and the MBR on a FAT32 partitioned hard drive.

Never try to reload a computer when you have been awake for 23 hours without any sleep...

Any program needs to be able to recover the fat table on a now unpartitioned hard drive. I saw a program called Repo2000 from www.datadepo.com... Any word on it's success rate? Thanks!

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[evilcabbage]

try a program called 'lost & found' its absolutely brilliant, and you can download a trial version for free.

Good luck.

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Its like shooting fish in a barrel, in the head, at point blank range, with an elephant gun.

[Larommi]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by evilcabbage:
try a program called 'lost & found' its absolutely brilliant, and you can download a trial version for free.

Good luck.

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From where? Powerquest took it off their site.


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[kennethstarrfp]

Sure it's a little itty bitty more work, but next time.

Remove C: drive completly from machine, set put extra drive that needs formating as C:, get disk that has been format a:/s, then put fdisk and format on it, boot using disk, fdisk or format drive, done, then put usual C: back in, and done. It's a bit more working but no more bye bye data. Try looking for data recovery services, sure you can't napster???

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[NPaladin]

Dude, no techie should be without an old, bootable DOS version of Norton UnFormat.

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[GHSTECH]

if the data is worth $90.00 or more go to www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/ and download EasyRecovery Personal edition you can buy it right off their website for $89.00. i have recovered gigs of data with it. it will take a while to do it but, it will recover from just about anything.

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[LegoZ 81]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by GHSTECH:
if the data is worth $90.00 or more go to www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/ and download EasyRecovery Personal edition you can buy it right off their website for $89.00. i have recovered gigs of data with it. it will take a while to do it but, it will recover from just about anything.

This Program can even pull files from linux partitions in raw formats...
I will be purchasing it if the trail works on my NTFS Dynamic disk in RAW mode... I can only hope....

ALSO if you Ctrl-C (ctrl-break) at the label prompt the format does not complete...



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[drivers]

Hi Everyone, can www.ontrack easyrecovery bring back a partition from a drive that was imaged by RIS and now the user of the information needs to get back data from the original partition? Thanks.