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by gavinscit
23 Dec 2014, 07:36
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: TestDisk wrote a FAT32 partition but still needs formatting
Replies: 1
Views: 1180

Re: TestDisk wrote a FAT32 partition but still needs formatt

For anyone else who stumbles across this - at least in my case I ended up tearing apart the external enclosure (a no-name branded unit that would never go back together again even if I wanted it to), and connected the drive directly via Sata. Windows then did an automatic check disk on the drive and ...
by gavinscit
18 Dec 2014, 01:01
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: TestDisk wrote a FAT32 partition but still needs formatting
Replies: 1
Views: 1180

TestDisk wrote a FAT32 partition but still needs formatting

Hi all,

I'm new to these forums and only a novice with TestDisk.

I followed the Wiki guide for recovering a partition that Windows wants to format but am still having trouble.

Initially I was given the drive (a 500Gb USB 2.5") and Windows simply gave the usual message "The drive is not formatted ...