fat32 partition gone to another dimension
Hi all,
I was just trying to access some data files from one of my hard drives,
and tata: I could no longer see them. It is a 40 GB fat32 partition on
one of my disks (the only fat32 partition I have). I have some valuable
stuff in there.
What happened is that I "upgrade"ed my debian SID through synaptic this
morning, then went to the Windows side for a while under which the
partition was still OK. It is only when I regained the debian side that
I lost it.
Now, all I see in the root of the disk is my old folders; all empty
except one with one file in it, and a load of fsck00??.rec files going
from 00 to 95 all in the root of the partition. Most of them are of
size 32 KB but some go up to 800 MB.
I tried "fat32 fsck0001.rec" search in google, but nothing helpful
there. Can you show me an article that can help me recover the hidden
data? I say hidden because under Windows, the size of the currently
visible files are about 1 GB while Windows says the partition is filled
with about 24 GB!
Thank you,
ib
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-- Book review by Ambrose Bierce.
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