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Your problem is certainly quite serious, and may be unrecoverable.
Before a further mistake is made, I recommend using another computer to
search the internet for a free copy of the old Powerquest utility,
partinfo.exe. Put a copy on a boot disk, and run it after booting to report
much more information about the drive/s than fdisk does. A clue may be
apparent then.
There are utilities which can rebuild a FAT table from the files on the HD.
You may feel better about a clean installation, however.
Also, you may wish to consider migrating to XP Home now.
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And ...
One option is "FileRestore" from Winternals Software--
www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/filerestore.asp
This $39 utility recovers files deleted from any Windows XP/2000/NT/Me/9x
system regardless of whether emptied from the Recycle Bin, deleted via a
command prompt or with a removed directory, by a remote process or
uninstall, etc. It's designed to be effective regardless of whether
installed before or after an accidental deletion.
FileRestore works on NTFS, FAT, and FAT32 drives. It recovers files
(including compressed files) deleted from hard drives- plus floppy disks,
Jaz, Zip, and even CompactFlash photo cards.
Please note:
Regardless of which recovery program is used, it is recommended that you--
To the extent possible stop all disk activity on your system without
shutting the system down. Turn off any scheduled defragmentation and do not
defrag your system until lost files are recovered. Close all applications
including email and Web browsing software and, if removable media such as a
floppy disk drive is available on your system, disconnect your system from
the network as soon as is practical. This will reduce the possibility that
deleted files will be overwritten.
If installing FileRestore, we recommend that you download and install it on
a second computer and follow the "Emergency Installation" procedure in the
Help file. This procedure will allow you to run FileRestore from a floppy
disk or network drive to help maximize the chances of recovery.
Most file recovery utilities are unable to recover data from accidentally
formatted partitions. "Disk Commander" from Winternals Software is a utility
designed for this purpose, among other things:
http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/diskcommander.asp
- Paul (a Winternals employee)
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And "Restoration". Freeware. Works great.
http://hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/~hcj58401/
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Don't be too impatient and make an unrecoverable error,
--
Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS
Help us help you:
http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx
Your cooperation is very appreciated.
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"Thomas Wilburn" <Thomas Wilburn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:39AD5B64-B93F-4A6A-BF0D-D3FE413710EC@microsoft.com...
> When moving files from one drive to my "C" drive, I got a message that
there
> was not enough room. Did I want to run disk cleanup. I clicked yes and
then
> got the blue screen. The error wouldn't clear so I had to restart my
> computer. When it came back up, I got "operating system is missing". I
put
> in my boot disk to check out the problem. I went into fdisk and for some
> reason it says that the "C" drive file structure is "8unknown". It should
be
> "fat32". Is there any way to recover any data from this drive or repair
the
> file structure?
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