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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1811623" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>It didn't have to delete the data, but it did delete the old partition and directory data, which effectively deleted the files. And when you made part of it FAT, that directory overwrote whatever was there, not only losing the directory data, but actually wiping it out. You might be able to recover files that were in the original partition that were not written into what you made into the FAT partition, but it's a crapshoot on what you can actually recover. It is worth trying, but don't get your hopes up too high.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1811623, member: 396914"] It didn't have to delete the data, but it did delete the old partition and directory data, which effectively deleted the files. And when you made part of it FAT, that directory overwrote whatever was there, not only losing the directory data, but actually wiping it out. You might be able to recover files that were in the original partition that were not written into what you made into the FAT partition, but it's a crapshoot on what you can actually recover. It is worth trying, but don't get your hopes up too high. [/QUOTE]
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