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WD 2TB suddenly changed to FAT16!

August 16th, 2011, 13:03

Hi everyone. i have a WD 2TB which suddenly changed from NTFS to FAT16 file system.
there is about 700gb of data. i made a file recovery with atola but i got half of the data corrupted for some reason.

in windows managment the drive seems to be innaccesible and needs to be formated. any ideas?

thank you in advance

Re: WD 2TB suddenly changed to FAT16!

August 16th, 2011, 13:05

suddenly changed from NTFS to FAT16 file system


how come? did u ran the command line? or used any utility for that?

Re: WD 2TB suddenly changed to FAT16!

August 16th, 2011, 13:18

the customer said that there was a blackout while copying files...

Re: WD 2TB suddenly changed to FAT16!

August 16th, 2011, 13:56

Probably the partition is corrupted. Have you tried R-Studio?

Re: WD 2TB suddenly changed to FAT16!

August 16th, 2011, 13:58

How does half the data being corrupted equate to a full recovery?
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