I would like some help in recovery of data from my 300G External drive. If I recall correctly it was called My Book from Western Digital, I've had it less than a year. I was using this drive as supplimental storage for my laptop. When I would shut down the laptop to leave I had noticed that the LED was still on in the front so I unplugged the power. This occured on a few occasions. The last time I was connected my computer saw the drive okay and all the directories and folders but the text for everything was all strange graphic symbols and characters. I shutdown and restarted everything but then half of the directories on the drive became files showing 32Kbytes in size and not windows recognizable. The remainder of the folders/directories are readable and when viewing properties on the drive it shows about the original amount of space that was used. The drive was formated as FAT32 and I am using Windows XP. Thank you.
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It sounds very much like your file allocation table may be somewhat corrupt (32KB is your cluster size). You should run chkdsk on the drive, as I think it can recover the FAT.
Just go start->run and type chkdsk /f C: (replacing C with whatever letter your drive is.
Good chance this could have been caused by yanking power while the drive was working with the FAT.
Just go start->run and type chkdsk /f C: (replacing C with whatever letter your drive is.
Good chance this could have been caused by yanking power while the drive was working with the FAT.
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