Re: fat32 partition gone to another dimension
--- Ibrahim Mubarak <ibmub80@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
>
Oh, and one more thing, the date on the files and folders goes all the
way back to Jan 1 1970!!! I wasn't even born then :D
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Book review by Ambrose Bierce.
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