Posted by -Angela- on 10/24/05 05:31

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 05:04:38 GMT, "Game On" <none@none.none> wrote:

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>"-Angela-" <TarapiaTapioco@jetmail.com> wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 04:15:05 GMT, "Game On" <none@none.none> wrote:
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>>>"-Angela-" <TarapiaTapioco@jetmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 05:12:39 GMT, "Game On" <none@none.none> wrote:
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>>>>>I was 29 hours into recovering my lost hard drive with GetDataBack and
>>>>>my
>>>>>wife shut the computor off.......i only had 9 hours to go. I give up!!!
>>>>>
>>>> Did you ever say if it was a FAT32 drive, or NTFS or ?
>>>
>>>FAT32
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>> I thought FAT32 files could be recovered in place on that file system
>> by programs that pre-check cluster chains, such as 'Ontrak Data
>> Recovery' (Not the Pro version!)(it sucks!) and most older Norton
>> un-delete programs... 'Get Data Back For Fat32' is very slow, but
>> quite reliable. FAT32 can be mapped for used clusters but NTFS can't,
>> thus it should be able to be restored without moving files out of the
>> drive. I was just curious of what file system it had, good luck.
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>What do you mean by restored without moving files out of the drive? I could
>restore them on the external (e drive) without moving to c drive then back
>again? It is VERY slow........about 2 days to get my files back. I will try
>it again sometime, i havent touched the drive since she shut it off.
>
No, I mean restore them on the drive they are missing from. Can be
done, but only on FAT type filesystems, which you said the drive is,
(FAT32).

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