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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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 Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 3:26 am Post subject: 120gb of movies and tunes gone |
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| anybody know how to recover a formatted drive on win2k? |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 3:27 am Post subject: Re: 120gb of movies and tunes gone |
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| wylde wrote: |
| anybody know how to recover a formatted drive on win2k? |
There's only one word that can sum this up.
Duuuuude! |
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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 3:34 am Post subject: |
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i'm not too unhappy cuz it only took about 2 months to fill it off winmx but it is still a pain in the rear...
thats with deleting all the crap and keeping the good stuff...
if it can be recovered i would be happier..  |
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lunachick
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 4:00 am Post subject: |
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| Can't say I've ever been in your shoes, but one of the programs here should help. . |
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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 4:40 am Post subject: |
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| lunachick wrote: |
| Can't say I've ever been in your shoes, but one of the programs here should help. . |
thanks.. i get the drive back tomorrow... i'll let ya know how it goes |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| wylde wrote: |
| it only took about 2 months to fill it off winmx |
No waaaaaay man. If you had used Emule/Kazaa/Grokster/my granny's shopping basket/etc you would have filled it in 2 days...
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uber1024
Joined: 28 Jul 2003
Location: New York City
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 5:07 am Post subject: Re: 120gb of movies and tunes gone |
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| wylde wrote: |
| anybody know how to recover a formatted drive on win2k? |
Did you format it, or just delete everything on it? How did you format it? FDISK? |
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 5:14 am Post subject: |
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Better question than how: WHY?
Can't say I've ever, in my life, accidentally reformatted a hard disk. |
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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| the saint wrote: |
| wylde wrote: |
| it only took about 2 months to fill it off winmx |
No waaaaaay man. If you had used Emule/Kazaa/Grokster/my granny's shopping basket/etc you would have filled it in 2 days... |
probably deleted 1-2tb of shit hard to count..
if ya knew what you were on about and have read previous posts... you would not be on the lame bandwagon.. sorry to let you down but you have no idea..
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| Better question than how: WHY? |
he was in a hurry.. he had to go.. it was my fault for not confirming the drive... i have 7 drives including partitions... silly mistake.. thats it
too late now anyways
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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 5:59 am Post subject: Re: 120gb of movies and tunes gone |
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| uber1024 wrote: |
| wylde wrote: |
| anybody know how to recover a formatted drive on win2k? |
Did you format it, or just delete everything on it? How did you format it? FDISK? |
no fdisk
just a format from a dos boot disk |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| Why are you using a boot disk for formatting? That would suggust you haven't upgraded from FAT 32 to NTFS. Particularly important as FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB and you've recently learned of Bittorrent that has files larger than that available. |
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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 6:46 am Post subject: |
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| Why are you using a boot disk for formatting? That would suggust you haven't upgraded from FAT 32 to NTFS. Particularly important as FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB and you've recently learned of Bittorrent that has files larger than that available. |
thanks gord..
i can't get a successful format through windows
its all fat 32.. ntfs is the way to go? i have been trying to reduce my concern in this area..
regardless... can i get this hdd back?
and if you have a sec... why isn't a .vob file playing for me?
i have enough (i think) gear to run em but they have a bad file format error happening |
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uber1024
Joined: 28 Jul 2003
Location: New York City
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| wylde wrote: |
| Gord wrote: |
| Why are you using a boot disk for formatting? That would suggust you haven't upgraded from FAT 32 to NTFS. Particularly important as FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB and you've recently learned of Bittorrent that has files larger than that available. |
its all fat 32.. ntfs is the way to go? i have been trying to reduce my concern in this area..
regardless... can i get this hdd back?
and if you have a sec... why isn't a .vob file playing for me?
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You can get NTFS bootdisks, FYI. I think that Win2k has a utility called makeboot.exe. And I think there's a website called bootdisk.com or something like that.
But that's beside the point now. If you fdisk'ed, there's really no going back from that. Your disk is f-ed, basically.
If you're going to reinstall windows, then I would suggest reinstalling with NTFS. All future versions of windows will use that until Microsoft moves to a different file system format (probably 2 versions of windows from now, in my opinion). FAT32 is okay if you're trying to network your computer to other computers to share files over a LAN and the other computers are Windows 95 or 98.
What's .vob? Any clue as to where that file format came from? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 11:33 am Post subject: |
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| There is no good reason for anyone who has 120GB of hard drive space and a WIN2k o/s to still be using FAT32, and plenty of bad ones. NTFS is the only way to go. |
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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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.vob is a dvd file i think
lost it? o well...
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| There is no good reason for anyone who has 120GB of hard drive space and a WIN2k o/s to still be using FAT32, and plenty of bad ones. NTFS is the only way to go. |
i haven't had any reason to suggest this is valuable info... if it was ntfs would it be recoverable? if so.. that would be the first reason i would say i have had any issues with fat 32 |
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