Re: Windows XP reading External Hard Drive

Unfortunately that's about all that I know about chkdsk. Hopefully
someone else will provide the answer.

Brian

"Sam2421" <Sam2421@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes Brian,

chkdsk said that there are lost segments and it ask if I wanted to
convert
the links -- I answered yes.

Do you know a way of seeing if these files exist at all or that they
may be
wiped out.

"Another Brian" wrote:

Windows XP should be able to read files in the FAT format. When you
ran chkdsk, exactly what messages did it display? It could be your
hard drive is in the process of failing and the sector containing
those files was marked as bad and the files couldn't be recovered.

"Sam2421" <Sam2421@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I made a mistake and chkdsk converted my files into /FAT
format....
Now I
cannot see my files using my XP system.

I know that these files 2800 files are in my hard drive.... How
could I
recover these files so that I can see it in my XP system.

Please help - Important...







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