Re: harddrive now shows 12bit fat ????was 16bit ??
From: CS (nomail_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/29/04
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Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:34:32 -0600
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:22:49 -0800, "Bill"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>hi i had a maxtor 40 gig hardrive and last week i came
>home and my computer was rebooting over and over, never
>making it to the win xp screen. ive tried to recover but
>was unable to now using erd commander to access the
>harddrive i see the size of the srive has changed to 10
>meg and is now a 12 bit fat partition. where did it all
>go. i had plenty of data on the drive and can no longer
>use it i see where this can be converted back to fat 16
>or 32 but will i loose may data or is it already gone.
>did a backup of the thing last month 3 weeks ago i guess
>but have some that i havent burned to cd yet. yan this
>be salvaged in any reasonable way. im going to try lost
>and found, maybe that will work but i dont know...
>HELP!!!!!!!
>bill please respond to my eamil address thanks
>weel@fuse.net
No E-Mail support. Post here, read reply here.
Your Maxtor is probably either dead or dying. Suggest you use the
Maxtor diagnostic program disk provided with the drive to run a check
on the drive. The disk is a bootable floppy. If you don't have one,
you can download a disk image from the Maxtor web site.
Seems like you already spent some money trying to access the drive so
I guess you need to determine how valuable your data is. There are
places that can retrieve data from a dead drive but are very
expensive.
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