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Are there any freeware utilities to fix a FAT32 partition.

I use WinXP. I have a data storage 20GB partition formatted in
FAT32. It has about 3 GB of data on it.

Recently, the long file name of the master root folder changed to and
8 character name. "RECYCLED" became "RUCYCLED". and "Reccycled"
also appeared.

Things seems pretty corrupted.

What tool can I run over the partition to try and do its best at
getting at least some of the data back?

Thanks.




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Alix wrote:
> Are there any freeware utilities to fix a FAT32 partition.
>
> I use WinXP. I have a data storage 20GB partition formatted in
> FAT32. It has about 3 GB of data on it.
>
> Recently, the long file name of the master root folder changed to and
> 8 character name. "RECYCLED" became "RUCYCLED". and "Reccycled"
> also appeared.
>
> Things seems pretty corrupted.
>
> What tool can I run over the partition to try and do its best at
> getting at least some of the data back?
>
> Thanks.

you should be looking for the cause of the problem. Probably a virus or
piece of malware.


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> Alix wrote:
>> Are there any freeware utilities to fix a FAT32 partition.
>>
>> I use WinXP. I have a data storage 20GB partition formatted in
>> FAT32. It has about 3 GB of data on it.
>>
>> Recently, the long file name of the master root folder changed to
>> and 8 character name. "RECYCLED" became "RUCYCLED". and
>> "Reccycled" also appeared.
>>
>> Things seems pretty corrupted.
>>
>> What tool can I run over the partition to try and do its best at
>> getting at least some of the data back?


On 17 May 2006, Lee<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> you should be looking for the cause of the problem. Probably a
> virus or piece of malware.


What caused it? That's easy enough. Some idiot (me) overclocked the
motherboard bus too much resulting in three or four write
verification failures to that FAT32 partition resulting in data
corruption. The idiot has now reduced the bus speed.

That FAT32 partition occupied the whole of the drive. All 10 other
parititions across my 6 HDDs used NTFS for their file system and
probably had better resilience/recovery.

Just to make it worse, when I rebooted the PC, XP automatically ran a
checkdisk on the bad partition and of course this ****ed things up as
checkdisk ran amok trying to salvage the integrity of the FAT at all
costs including the cost of my data.

The result is 10,000 recovered file fragments amounting to 1GB when
checkdisk ran out of file reference numbers FILEXXXX.CHK. This is
approx one third of the way into my original 3GB data.

Can I salvage anything from this debris? I am rusty on FAT32 tools.
ISTR Grau had some tool. Pc-Inspector? Drive rescue? It changed
names. Became $$$ware. What is going to be the best thing to try?

"Alix" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Xns97C665E14F8F45D4AM2@127.0.0.1...
>> Alix wrote:
>>> Are there any freeware utilities to fix a FAT32 partition.
>>>
>>> I use WinXP. I have a data storage 20GB partition formatted in
>>> FAT32. It has about 3 GB of data on it.
>>>
>>> Recently, the long file name of the master root folder changed to
>>> and 8 character name. "RECYCLED" became "RUCYCLED". and
>>> "Reccycled" also appeared.
>>>
>>> Things seems pretty corrupted.
>>>
>>> What tool can I run over the partition to try and do its best at
>>> getting at least some of the data back?
>
>
> On 17 May 2006, Lee<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> you should be looking for the cause of the problem. Probably a
>> virus or piece of malware.
>
>
> What caused it? That's easy enough. Some idiot (me) overclocked the
> motherboard bus too much resulting in three or four write
> verification failures to that FAT32 partition resulting in data
> corruption. The idiot has now reduced the bus speed.
>
> That FAT32 partition occupied the whole of the drive. All 10 other
> parititions across my 6 HDDs used NTFS for their file system and
> probably had better resilience/recovery.
>
> Just to make it worse, when I rebooted the PC, XP automatically ran a
> checkdisk on the bad partition and of course this ****ed things up as
> checkdisk ran amok trying to salvage the integrity of the FAT at all
> costs including the cost of my data.
>
> The result is 10,000 recovered file fragments amounting to 1GB when
> checkdisk ran out of file reference numbers FILEXXXX.CHK. This is
> approx one third of the way into my original 3GB data.
>
PCI File Recovery
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Best of luck.

I've tried to catalog Checkdisk Fix tools here:

http://www.s2services.com/windows-chk-files.htm

There are sections in the site for various types of data rescue. I'm
sorry I don't know enough yet disk problems to tell you which software
to use but there are all kinds of freeware for saving data from
disaster that I've found. Here's the sitemap:

http://www.s2services.com/sitemap.htm

By the way good luck

On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:00:54 +0100, Alix <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>The result is 10,000 recovered file fragments amounting to 1GB when
>checkdisk ran out of file reference numbers FILEXXXX.CHK. This is
>approx one third of the way into my original 3GB data.

>Can I salvage anything from this debris?

Probably - with a good disk editor (something like the old Norton
DiskEdit) and a LOT of patience. There's no program ever written
that's going to determine that FILE0035.CHK was the 8th piece of
RecycledMusicFiles.dat - you're going to have to do it manually if you
want to recover most (or all) of your data. One file at a time, map
it on paper, then the best course is to copy the pieces to another
drive and reassemble it there. I wouldn't do any writing to the
original drive until I'd recovered what I wanted.