[ale] OT: unformat for fat

[Geoffrey]

Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>> Anyone know of an app that will unformat a fat partition in order to 
>> recover the files that were on the partition prior to the idiot 
>> formatting it???
>>
> I had this happen to me recently, though on a linux partition.  I've 
> since collected quite a few utilities.  Try this one:
> 
> PC Inspector
> http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

Well, these folks actually offer a package called pc inspector 'smart 
recovery' that claims:

'If you have unintentionally deleted or formatted pictures, videos or 
sound files on your data carrier or have pulled it out during a write 
operation, no matter -  PC INSPECTOR? smart recovery can easily, quickly 
and absolutely reliably reconstruct the lost data.'

Yet it did not find anything.  I'm really thinking that Sony wiped out 
the whole stick.  I can't imagine how.  How long would it take to 
actually write 128 mb?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995