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April 4, 2005 at 06:50 AM
mike (from canada)

FAT is damaged

by mike (from canada) . Updated 20 years, 3 months ago

I have a hard drive which once contained two FAT16 partitions. It seemed that the secondary partition was completely damaged, and since I only used it for the windows swap file, I decided to reformat it as a clean, and new FAT16 partition. Once I did that, it turned out that my first partition is no longer accessible by DOS! Also, DOS does not correctly report the amount of free disk space, and using the /a switch to display all files including hidden files did not help either. I ran Tiramisu software on it, and it was able to see 1/2 the files that were on it before, but I had to pay to recover the files. I think I was hit with some kind of virus. I tried the CIH-FIX and that didnt work because I didnt have any FAT32 partitions.

What can I do to fix this problem?

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