Re: NTFS drive thinks it is FAT
- From: "Robert Mitchell [MSFT]" <robtm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 14:51:08 -0400
You need to change your partition identifier to '07'. It's probably just
set to '06' or a '0f'.
It's something you would need to call in for to get help.
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"slimeruk" <slimeruk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:529AC582-67EB-47BA-BDDE-F779961301FF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I had a perfectly working PC with XP Pro installed on a 160Gb Maxtor HDD.
>
> For no reason I error checked the hard drive, which the system did after
> rebooting, at the end of the test the system rebooted and announced that
> there was a error on the boot and boot.ini.
>
> Useing XP Emergency (on disk) I tried fixmbr which did nothing then I
> tried
> Fixboot. XP found the drive identified it as FAT and said that it was
> successfully fixed.
>
> The drive was FAT and is now unusable. Partition Magic sees it as a FAT
> drive as does XP when I switched the HDD into another machine.
>
> I have a couple of file recovery programs which see this drive as FAT and
> will not show up any files. I tried a demo of Partition Table Doctor 3.0
> which sees it as NTFS drive and claims it can rebuild the table to make
> this
> work again, but being a demo will not do it until I pay $49
>
> I have checked various reviews and the only positive ones seem to have
> been
> left by the same person (The broken english is the same on them all.) So I
> am
> very dubious to hand over the cash.
>
> I need the files on this HDD desperately, theres alot of crucial stuff
> there
> since my last backup which I do do (but not as often as I should have!)
>
> I have booted using a Live Linux CD (Knoppix) and that shows as a FAT
> there
> too and I do not have any expertise with QPART or Linux either really.
>
> My question to you lovely people is.... Anyone used PTD 3.0 and can
> honestly
> recommend it for this problem, or if anyone has any other suggestions to
> that
> this drive can be called NTFS rather than FAT without a format?
>
> The drive was not converted to FAT just the partition table adjusted as
> far
> as I can see. I need something that does the same as fixboot but the
> opposite
> to switch it back to NTFS, hopefully with file system intact.
>
> Those of you familiar with partionmagic might want to know that textually
> it
> claims I have only used 6.8Mb of the drive but graphically the bar goes to
> the percentage of the drive that I had actually used. (It reports the
> total
> size correctly, but as the others thinks its FAT rather than NTFS)
>
> I can access the drive when piggybacked on another ststem using XP but its
> all gobble-de-gook
>
> Thanks for reading........ over to you......
.
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