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dimm

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Feb 6, 2010
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I need help, which recovery app should I try out to fix this on Mac OSX or Windows? I accidentally reformatted to fat32 the wrong usb drive realizing within seconds. I've download "easeUS data recovery wizard technician" taking 2/3 hours for deep scanning, looks like it's not finding anymore data. I say it found 4% to 8% of data, which looks very disappointing. I just use this as storage only. The external usb drive works fine, but I made a terrible mistake.

Thank you guys if you can help, I can't let it go. if there any free trusted ones, great. I don't know if I lost 80 to 200gb of data.
 
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Fishrrman

macrumors Penryn
Feb 20, 2009
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I don't think Mac recovery software is going to work with fat32.
I sense whatever "recovery" might be possible, is going to have to be done "on the PC side of things".

Having said that, I wouldn't hold out much hope of getting that data back.
If you DO get it back, please tell us what worked for you.
 
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