[expert] Unformatting a vfat partition

2002-11-03 Thread Brian Schroeder
I think I know the answer to this, but is it possible to un-format a fat partition (formatted from diskdrake)? To set the scene: My windows partition trashed itself. I had a complete backup of it on another partition. So I decided to format the bad partition and copy on everything from the

Re: [expert] Unformatting a vfat partition

2002-11-03 Thread J. Grant
well if you were using the commandline format tool you could have just pressed ctrl+c right up until 99% or so, as its just checking the drive. Other than that, put it in another MS PC and hope for the best, u might have to buy some software to recover it JG Brian Schroeder wrote: I think I

Re: [expert] Unformatting a vfat partition

2002-11-03 Thread James Sparenberg
YOUR MILAGE MAY VARY!!! What I have been able to do on other boxes. (We had a sales guy that transfered everything by sneaker net and kept formating his HDD instead of the floppy.) IF the format tool in Linux is fat16 (I think it is) then possibly either the DOS 6.22 unformat tool or Norton

Re: [expert] Unformatting a vfat partition

2002-11-03 Thread Brian Schroeder
] Unformatting a vfat partition Date: 03 Nov 2002 19:35:14 -0800 YOUR MILAGE MAY VARY!!! What I have been able to do on other boxes. (We had a sales guy that transfered everything by sneaker net and kept formating his HDD instead of the floppy.) IF the format tool in Linux is fat16 (I think