[COMP] Re: Utility for restoring a file allocation table

On Mon, 29 May 2000 01:31:57 -0700, the Da-Sein "Michael V. Franklin" 
<slavo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|A friend of mine accidently formatted his Fat32 backup drive as an NTFS when
|he was installing Windows 2000.  He said it didn't do a full format, so I'm
|assuming most of the data is still on the drive.  Are there any utilities
|out there that can rebuild a file allocation table from the data on the
|drive?

well... since your friend presumably lost his fa-table.... there isnt
much hope. there are specialized firms for this (search for
data-recovery), but those are very expensive...

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