Deleted FAT

G'day,

I have a hard drive - 40 gig, partitioned up into a 10 gig and 30

Second hard drive is 20 gig

With the first hard drive, that 10gig is C:/ which is windows (xp home). Now
though I can "see" the 30gig hard drive in windows

When I floppy disk boot with the Ranish partition manager, it see's that it
is there, but says it's "unused".....yet with a program called Virtual Lab
(ver 4), THIS program DOES "see" my "missing" 30 gig drive, it even has the
(correct) volume label for that drive, but, being a shareware version, it
wants me to pay $200 to get 20 gig of "credit" so that i can save or recover
my files

Am i right in guessing that somehow my 30gig drive (well partition really)
has had it's FAT table deleted ?

How (freely) can i get my 30 gig drive back and up and working and "seen"
and thus used in windows ?

Thanks in advance,
Jeff

Jeff wrote:
> G'day,
>
> I have a hard drive - 40 gig, partitioned up into a 10 gig and 30
>
> Second hard drive is 20 gig
>
> With the first hard drive, that 10gig is C:/ which is windows (xp home). Now
> though I can "see" the 30gig hard drive in windows
>
> When I floppy disk boot with the Ranish partition manager, it see's that it
> is there, but says it's "unused".....yet with a program called Virtual Lab
> (ver 4), THIS program DOES "see" my "missing" 30 gig drive, it even has the
> (correct) volume label for that drive, but, being a shareware version, it
> wants me to pay $200 to get 20 gig of "credit" so that i can save or recover
> my files
>
> Am i right in guessing that somehow my 30gig drive (well partition really)
> has had it's FAT table deleted ?
>
> How (freely) can i get my 30 gig drive back and up and working and "seen"
> and thus used in windows ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jeff
>
>

Ideally, a FAT32 partition will have TWO FAT tables. there may be some
utils out there to restore the FAT table, but there's NO GUARANTEE
that'll solve your problem.

In general, if its just FAT32 (or 16 or 12) that you're working with, I
might suggest looking to Linux for help. there's a nice bootable live CD
distribution called Knoppix available at http://www.knoppix.org. since
Microsoft made FAT 12, 16, AND 32 all published standards, Knoppix
should be able to see and read the partition. if so, then you can run
dosfsck from the linux console on that particular partition. that might help

--Xero

--
if all else fails: go fsck yourself!

the email address is not real (leading numbers are an obvious
indication) to get the real address, take each individual part
and flip it around so would be

>>
>> How (freely) can i get my 30 gig drive back and up and working and "seen"
>> and thus used in windows ?

Try this program
Recover My Filesâ„¢ is fast and easy. No technical or data recovery
software skill is required. Use Recover My Filesâ„¢ to perform hard
drive data recovery, or recover deleted files from floppy disk, zip
drive, compact flash, smart media or other removable media.

h**p://www.recovermyfiles.com/downloads/RecoverMyFiles-Setup.exe

Name:John Arbuckle
S.N.:8365-4878-DC45-0388-0BE9-E2C8-284E-0109-DB76-4AB4
Name:AYMAN HAMMAD
S.N.:G-VXV11N-W573R3-BKM5K6-XRJ57Y-Z2WU48-F8DZV9-M0B6DQ-MVG508

thats magic,

thanks for your time. I shall give that a go first thing in the morning

Jeff

"Pandora Xero" <> wrote in message
news:MI2dnb4X6tg21hDcRVn-...
> Jeff wrote:
> > G'day,
> >
> > I have a hard drive - 40 gig, partitioned up into a 10 gig and 30
> >
> > Second hard drive is 20 gig
> >
> > With the first hard drive, that 10gig is C:/ which is windows (xp home).
Now
> > though I can "see" the 30gig hard drive in windows
> >
> > When I floppy disk boot with the Ranish partition manager, it see's that
it
> > is there, but says it's "unused".....yet with a program called Virtual
Lab
> > (ver 4), THIS program DOES "see" my "missing" 30 gig drive, it even has
the
> > (correct) volume label for that drive, but, being a shareware version,
it
> > wants me to pay $200 to get 20 gig of "credit" so that i can save or
recover
> > my files
> >
> > Am i right in guessing that somehow my 30gig drive (well partition
really)
> > has had it's FAT table deleted ?
> >
> > How (freely) can i get my 30 gig drive back and up and working and
"seen"
> > and thus used in windows ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Jeff
> >
> >
>
> Ideally, a FAT32 partition will have TWO FAT tables. there may be some
> utils out there to restore the FAT table, but there's NO GUARANTEE
> that'll solve your problem.
>
> In general, if its just FAT32 (or 16 or 12) that you're working with, I
> might suggest looking to Linux for help. there's a nice bootable live CD
> distribution called Knoppix available at http://www.knoppix.org. since
> Microsoft made FAT 12, 16, AND 32 all published standards, Knoppix
> should be able to see and read the partition. if so, then you can run
> dosfsck from the linux console on that particular partition. that might
help
>
> --Xero
>
> --
> if all else fails: go fsck yourself!
>
> the email address is not real (leading numbers are an obvious
> indication) to get the real address, take each individual part
> and flip it around so would be

thanks,

i shall investigate it - i need this data back, then will burn it all off
onto cd AND new hard drive
"catougn" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> >>
> >> How (freely) can i get my 30 gig drive back and up and working and
"seen"
> >> and thus used in windows ?
>
> Try this program
> Recover My FilesT is fast and easy. No technical or data recovery
> software skill is required. Use Recover My FilesT to perform hard
> drive data recovery, or recover deleted files from floppy disk, zip
> drive, compact flash, smart media or other removable media.
>
> h**p://www.recovermyfiles.com/downloads/RecoverMyFiles-Setup.exe
>
> Name:John Arbuckle
> S.N.:8365-4878-DC45-0388-0BE9-E2C8-284E-0109-DB76-4AB4
> Name:AYMAN HAMMAD
> S.N.:G-VXV11N-W573R3-BKM5K6-XRJ57Y-Z2WU48-F8DZV9-M0B6DQ-MVG508