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Subject:   File Recovery
Date:   4/25/2008 12:25:46 PM

Guys, This is not lake related, but you are talking about lake photos... If a drive has been formatted it doesn't necessarily mean that the files are gone from a magnetic drive. What has happened is the file table data has been deleted. So when you view the contents of the drive from an operating system (Windows XP for example) it no longer sees the files listed in those tables but they are there.

As for a drive being formatted to a smaller size, it's likely it was formatted as FAT32. This was the native format of drives prior to Windows 2000. FAT32 had a size limitation to what it could format to. Newer operating systems are still compatible with both but the newer ones require NTFS on the system drive.

It may be possible to recover files not visible to your operating system and a lot of that possiblity has to do with how much the drive has been used since the format. As new files are put on, the older ones are eventually purged. Remember there are files there not visible to your OS, but the are on the drive and can be seen by special software.

If you have a drive that is 100 GB and you have since added and deleted 300 GB of total files form it since, then it's not likely you'll recover those old files. But If you have a 100 GB drive and you've added only 30 GB of files since then, you have a better chance of finding at least some of them. Another thing to consider is you may not be able to recover the actual file names as there is some indexing naming convention the file has underneath the file system tables.

Below is a link so one of many softwares that can help you recover deleted files and formated file systems.

URL: Data Recovery Software
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