Boy was I having fun getting my multi-boot flash drive to off of numerous
operating systems. That is, until I accidentally blew away a fairly large
partition.
Yes, it was a careless and potentially costly mistake. Fortunately much of the
data was backed up, but not all of it.
I did this dirty deed with FreeDOS 1.0 FDISK & format, on an approximately 30
GB FAT32 partition. I immediately looked at unformat, but I noticed that the
message displayed after running format was something like "unformat data not
saved" or "..unavailable". The format process was extremely quick, like maybe
5 seconds or less.
There seems to be a wide variety of data recovery products that profess to work
on FAT32 partitions after a format. But before I download, buy, try something
out:
1. To those who know this OS and the nuances of what FreeDOS's format actually
does, do you have any particular suggestions?
2. Anything I should avoid? Any data recovery programs recommended or that I
should avoid (i.e. might make the situation worse)?
I have used FreeDOS for numerous tasks in recent years. Thanks for the great
program, and any constructive suggestions you can offer are greatly appreciated.
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