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   From: Dave Yeo    
      
   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:   
   >> 'Short' formatting is pretty much ok, so I guess thats what you did.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I've never done anything else.  I've never had, or even seen, a need for   
   > long formatting an HPFS volume.   
      
   If you do a short format then do a chkdsk /f3 you will recover all the    
   files that were on the partition before formatting.   
   Dave   
      
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