[Solved] Drive changed to FAT16 from NTFS
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Thread created 04-28-2012 by repitall
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Thanks Rocky,
I may have to convert it to NTFS and just use the space left, but I still have the reduced drive size issue or are you saying that converting will put me back to 320 GB. I may be...
[Solved] Drive changed to FAT16 from NTFS
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For starters, you could surely copy that music to another location temporarily, to allow you to wipe it and format it into NTFS.
Have you looked in Disk Management to see what it shows?
If it's...
[Solved] Drive changed to FAT16 from NTFS
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Thread created 04-28-2012 by repitall
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Unbelievable....Hitachi's FTool worked, at least it did on my WD drive. Downloaded the .iso, burnt the cd, booted from it, picked Change Capacity and rebooted..Done.
It not only restore the entire...
[Solved] Drive changed to FAT16 from NTFS
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Thread created 04-28-2012 by repitall
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I have a 320 gb WD IDE rack mount drive that I took out and plugged into a USB enclosure, in order to replace the rack mount drive.
Here's the weird part.
The USB enclosure recognized it fine on...
[Solved] Drive changed to FAT16 from NTFS
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Thread created 04-28-2012 by repitall
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There are ways to convert it without formatting, such as in the following link.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb456984.aspx
By Googling it, you may find better instructions, but...
[Solved] Drive changed to FAT16 from NTFS
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Thread created 04-28-2012 by repitall
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Problem is I can't get access to the drive to copy anything. I tried a recovery utility and get nothing, for all I know the data is in the unallocated space. If I try to open the drive it asks me if...
