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I have 3 partitons C-Drive(Windows 2000, FAT32)
E-Drive (Windows XP Pro SP1, NTFS)& D-Drive (FAT 32) contains most important data which i had lost accidently. The history is that I want to format the E-Drive but unforunatly i had formated my D-Drive from FAT 32 to NTFS.Now I want to ask that can a recover my lost data.

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by ic-it

You wont be able to read it from the FAT32 Win2000 installation, but since XP is on an NTFS drive the D: should be readable and accessable from there.
If you have Partition Magic 8 or better (more utilities available for the job too), you can convert the D: back to FAT32.

by oh smeg

Here is a list of the more popular Data Recovery Software and though not a full list it does cover the more commonly used items.

You need to remember however that any data saved needs to be copied to a different drive to the one being recovered to prevent th Recovered Data Overwriting the Unrecovered Data and destroying it.

Here is a short list of the better ones

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While the last 2 are from the same company they are very different products. Win Hex should only be considered foe use by someone who knows Hex Inside Out while Davory is a great cheap General Purpose Application.

Personally I prefer the On Track Option but it's anything but cheap. However because I use this type of software a lot it's paid for itself many times over by now, for a cheaper option Spin Rite from Gibson Research or Stella have both very good reputations by other TR members.

Col

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