[ale] OT: unformat for fat

[Preston Boyington]

zeb wrote:
> On Friday 01 October 2004 03:34 pm, 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???
> 
> Once upon a time, I repartitioned two FAT partitions into one Ext2
> partition.  Then I realized what I had done--and I had a ton onf
> scanned photos on the two FAT partitions.  "Get Data
> Back" (proprietary) for Windows0x recovered virtually all the files.
> Some were lost--I think during the repartitioning process.
> 
> My son used the same program for Win Nt to recover two large external
> hard disks that had gotten messed up.  I don't know any details as to
> completeness. 
> 
> Zeb
> 

I remember "Lost and Found" also.