Thanks James. It's my home machine, and I am at work at the moment. I'll try your suggestions when I can this week, and hopefully have some success.
Brian.
From: James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [expert] Unformatting a vfat partition Date: 03 Nov 2002 19:35:14 -0800 YOUR MILAGE MAY VARY!!! What I have been able to do on other boxes. (We had a sales guy that transfered everything by sneaker net and kept formating his HDD instead of the floppy.) IF the format tool in Linux is fat16 (I think it is) then possibly either the DOS 6.22 unformat tool or Norton Utilities unformat will work. (I've used norton several times on the above guys box... hasn't failed me ....yet.....*grin.) Another possiblity is this guys tool at http://dos.li5.org/downloads/rec.htm OSS Dos tools one is undelete and the other is an unformat tool. James On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 18:25, J. Grant wrote: > well if you were using the commandline format tool you could have just > pressed ctrl+c right up until 99% or so, as its just checking the drive. > > Other than that, put it in another MS PC and hope for the best, u might > have to buy some software to recover it > > JG > > Brian Schroeder wrote: > > I think I know the answer to this, but is it possible to > > un-format a fat partition (formatted from diskdrake)? > > > > To set the scene: My windows partition trashed itself. I had > > a complete backup of it on another partition. So I decided to > > format the bad partition and copy on everything from the backup. > > > > Unfortunately (stupidly!), I somehow managed to format the wrong > > one... > > > > I haven't touched the newly formated partition since. > > > > Brian Schroeder > > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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