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robau · Guest

So I wanted to map my fat 32 drive to have a J: for it's drive letter. That killed my partition map apparently. I bought some recovery software (HDD Recovery) and it was able to recover almost everything except my video files. These are extremely large .mov files with various compressors. The recovery program copies them over to the new drive but they are not usable. I get something like "error: -2048 not a recognizable file" (sorry for not being exact I am not at home but work right now. I can get the exact error if that is helpful) when I try to open in quicktime. Avi files also ruined.

Any suggestions? These files are part of a short film I am doing and so reshooting them is very costly and not practical. Is there a specific way to map a drive letter for a fat 32 drive? What did I do wrong and how can I fix it.

Rob

admin2 · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 4

Recovery software has to do nothing with file types, In case of FAT, Recovery softwares are Interested in FAT table and FDT entries, once software find FDT of that file then it goes to make the chain from FAT Table, In this specific case FAT table doesn't seems to be corrupted. and ofcourse drive was not in use after data lost. So files can be recovered. You should try some other recovery software or service to check the file recovery.Changing Drive letter has no affect on Partition map or Partition table offsets