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by artel

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I have a 40 Gig Maxtor drive that was working fine and suddenly is not recognized. I tried to use it as a slave and look at it with Partition Magic. Instead of saying it is a FAT32 partition it says it is a Type 44 Hex drive. Is there a way to rebuild or recover the FAT? I have looked for recovery software but I'm not sure if it is worth the money.

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by shanghai sam

The trial version only shows what could be recovered but doesn't actually do anything. I think $179.00 is a little steep. Thanks for the info

by timthetoolman

Hi,

Yep, I think you've hit the nail on the head. If you're not really sure its going to be worth the money, then perhaps its not...

You can try the freebies like scandisk (which you've almost certainly tried) and if they dont work, you'll probably have to go for specialised recovery software.

You've researched this and seen that it can cost significant money...

Here's another site you may wish to consider. They have some free downloads that may be able to help you too...

http://www.dtidata.com/?AG=pauldti1

(remove spaces from above URL)

Cheers,
Tim.

by shanghai sam

The trial version only shows what could be recovered but doesn't actually do anything. I think $295.00 to $699.00 is very steep for a consumer. Thanks for the info

by kennek

If the good old FDISK command is not enough to recover from this problem, you'll probably need more than Partition Magic. Between FDISK and Scandisk apps, in 10 yrs of PC work I've only had 1 HDD fail beyond reclaimation. That one I fried by a miscue of a flipped PS cable during a power-on HDD swap.............ZAPPED!
FDISK\Scandisk should be found on, at least, any Win9x CD.

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