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Re: External USB HDD changed NTFS to FAT32

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: External USB HDD changed NTFS to FAT32
Date 2025-05-07 12:42 +0200
Message-ID <c1qrelxt13.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink)
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On 2025-05-07 10:27, scbs29 wrote:
> Can anyone please help ?
> I have a 6TB USB HDD attached to my pc for storage. Yerterday I could access this disk with no problems and
> it showed the folders and files as expected.
> I shut down the pc last noght, and this mornoing when I booted up I could not access the USB HDD.
> File manager states that the disk is empty, all my data has disappeared. AOMEI Partition Assistant shows
> that the file system on the disk has changed from NTFS (yseterday) to FAT32. I gather that this is the problem,
> that FAT32 will not handle disks of this side. Can anyone give me anyu idea how thois can occur ?
> Has anyone tried to revert FAT32 to NTFS and regained the data ? I do of course realise that this is a forlorn hope,
> but is rthere anything at all that I can do ?
> 
> I would be grateful for any advice.

It is not possible for such a conversion to happen automatically and by 
accident. If a software to do such a conversion exists, it takes hours 
to do it.

AOMEI Partition Assistant is such a software, so perhaps you told it to 
do the conversion from ntfs to fat32 before powering down, and the thing 
ran during the night. Or you powered down during the conversion.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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External USB HDD changed NTFS to FAT32 scbs29 <scbs29@fred.talktalk.net> - 2025-05-07 09:27 +0100
  Re: External USB HDD changed NTFS to FAT32 Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-05-07 10:10 +0100
  Re: External USB HDD changed NTFS to FAT32 Shinji Ikari <shinji@gmx.net> - 2025-05-07 11:21 +0200
  Re: External USB HDD changed NTFS to FAT32 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-07 12:42 +0200
    Re: External USB HDD changed NTFS to FAT32 scbs29 <scbs29@fred.talktalk.net> - 2025-05-07 19:10 +0100
      Re: External USB HDD changed NTFS to FAT32 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-07 16:55 -0400
  Re: External USB HDD changed NTFS to FAT32 "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-05-07 10:57 -0400
  Re: External USB HDD changed NTFS to FAT32 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-07 14:18 -0400
  Re: External USB HDD changed NTFS to FAT32 Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-05-08 13:29 -0500

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