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Old 10-20-2007   #1 (permalink)
NOLA Chris


 
 

Deleted 1 subfolder and all disappear

I deleted a subfolder and all other subfolders in the main folder
disappeared. I had some of the other folders on another drive, and although
Vista shows 0 files and 0 folders, but when I go to copy the data it says
there is already a folder there with that name, do I want to overwrite it?
So I am guessing that the data is still there, just Vista corrupted the FAT
for that directory. The drive is an external HD with a FAT32 file system
plugged into an apple Airport Extreme router (reason for FAT 32 instead of
NTFS). It uses Iomega's FAT 32 formatting program to have a 500GB FAT 32
drive. Any ideas how to recover the FAT for this folder?

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Old 10-20-2007   #2 (permalink)
Andrew McLaren


 
 

Re: Deleted 1 subfolder and all disappear

"NOLA Chris" <NOLA Chris@xxxxxx> wrote ...
Quote:

> for that directory. The drive is an external HD with a FAT32 file system
> plugged into an apple Airport Extreme router (reason for FAT 32 instead of
> NTFS). It uses Iomega's FAT 32 formatting program to have a 500GB FAT 32
> drive. Any ideas how to recover the FAT for this folder?
Windows cannot create FAT32 volumes larger then 127GB. If the Iomega utility
has created a FAT32 volume 500GB in size, it probably used some form of
proprietary Iomega extension. I suspect that running any kind of Windows
repair tool on this drive could easily scramble it, since Windows will not
understand how Iomega has formatted the drive. You need to get help from
Iomega - check their website and user forum.

Good luck with it,
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au


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