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Rich T
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Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:43 am Post subject:
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Hi Trying to find out if its possible to recover some files
Had win 98se on unpartioned fat 32 drive
installed xp and let xp quick format and convert to ntfs no partion
then told some jpegs were on C: not in my docs
I did this to my friends pc
any chance I can recover ?
cheers
Rich |
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Andrew E.
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Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:43 am Post subject:
RE: disc format |
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FAT32 doesnt support ntfs,any files after formatting would be lost.You should
never use a quick format.
"Rich T" wrote:
| Quote: | Hi Trying to find out if its possible to recover some files
Had win 98se on unpartioned fat 32 drive
installed xp and let xp quick format and convert to ntfs no partion
then told some jpegs were on C: not in my docs
I did this to my friends pc
any chance I can recover ?
cheers
Rich
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R. C. White
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Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:08 pm Post subject:
Re: disc format |
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Hi, Rich.
If I understand correctly, this computer has only a single hard drive, with
all of its space in a single partition, both before and after upgrading to
WinXP.
There are two ways to switch from FAT to NTFS, and they are mutually
exclusive. Which did you use?
1. The Convert command changes the format without losing any of the
volume's contents.
2. Format (whether Quick or not) ignores the previous contents of the
volume and creates a new empty volume using the new format.
If you used Convert, then all the old files should be intact. If you used
Format, then the old files (jpegs and all other) are gone forever - unless
you (or your friend) can afford one of the (usually expensive) disk recovery
services.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
"Rich T" <dumpthismail@talbots.f9.co.uk> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hi Trying to find out if its possible to recover some files
Had win 98se on unpartioned fat 32 drive
installed xp and let xp quick format and convert to ntfs no partion
then told some jpegs were on C: not in my docs
I did this to my friends pc
any chance I can recover ?
cheers
Rich |
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Rich T
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Sun Nov 07, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject:
Re: disc format |
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Hi
thanks for your time
quick format was used, so gone forever
cheers
Richard
"R. C. White" <rc@corridor.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hi, Rich.
If I understand correctly, this computer has only a single hard drive,
with
all of its space in a single partition, both before and after upgrading to
WinXP.
There are two ways to switch from FAT to NTFS, and they are mutually
exclusive. Which did you use?
1. The Convert command changes the format without losing any of the
volume's contents.
2. Format (whether Quick or not) ignores the previous contents of the
volume and creates a new empty volume using the new format.
If you used Convert, then all the old files should be intact. If you used
Format, then the old files (jpegs and all other) are gone forever - unless
you (or your friend) can afford one of the (usually expensive) disk
recovery
services.
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
"Rich T" <dumpthismail@talbots.f9.co.uk> wrote in message
news:41742a7f$0$32927$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
Hi Trying to find out if its possible to recover some files
Had win 98se on unpartioned fat 32 drive
installed xp and let xp quick format and convert to ntfs no partion
then told some jpegs were on C: not in my docs
I did this to my friends pc
any chance I can recover ?
cheers
Rich
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