Formatted Drive

[James Reeve]

I have formatted a drive (Fat 32) and installed XP on the
same partition (NTFS). Can I recover files from my
original Fat 32 partition. What are my chances.
www3.telus.net/dandemar/datrec.htm explains nothing to
me. Is there software or other sites I can refer to.

Thanks.

 

[Epona]

I have formatted a drive (Fat 32) and installed XP on the
same partition (NTFS). Can I recover files from my
original Fat 32 partition. What are my chances.
www3.telus.net/dandemar/datrec.htm explains nothing to
me. Is there software or other sites I can refer to.

Thanks.

Not quite sure what you're asking; XP can read any standard format you throw
at it - it will easily read and recover data from a FAT32 partition.

Having re-read your question - I don't understand it - one partition can be
formatted to only *one* file system - you cannot format half of it to
another - that would require the partition to be divided, ergo it would
become *two* partitions.

Could you please explain things better?

 

[Michael Stevens]

I have formatted a drive (Fat 32) and installed XP on the
same partition (NTFS). Can I recover files from my
original Fat 32 partition. What are my chances.
www3.telus.net/dandemar/datrec.htm explains nothing to
me. Is there software or other sites I can refer to.

Thanks.

Not very good, but if the information is very valueble, it can most likely
be retreived. You will need to determine the value of the information by
supplying a retainer fee.
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[Sharon F]

I have formatted a drive (Fat 32) and installed XP on the
same partition (NTFS). Can I recover files from my
original Fat 32 partition. What are my chances.
www3.telus.net/dandemar/datrec.htm explains nothing to
me. Is there software or other sites I can refer to.

Thanks.

You formatted a drive FAT32. At that point markers to all existing files
were removed. You then converted the partition to NTFS and installed XP
-or- installed XP and converted the file system to NTFS. Huge chance that
the remnants of wanted files were overwritten and lost.

If there is any chance at all of getting back those files, it will not be
with the tools in Windows XP. Third party data recovery tools may be able
to get some (or none) of the files back. The links on the
www3.telus.net/dandemar/datrec.htm page lead to various tools of this type.

If the data is very important, the services of a data recovery company
(expensive) will be needed. Still no guarantee of recovery considering the
type and amount of activity on this drive.