Drive has no recognized file system

[hisham]

I can not access to the E drive, I did the following: Boot from floppy disk and Run FDISK utility to view the partition details to make sure that the drive partition is set to active. I found that all the Drives set to fat 32 file system, but the E Drive has no recognized file system, how can I recover the data from this Drive.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Jakespeare]

Is it possible that it was NTFS ?

What is the history on this drive ?

 

[ectimo]

hi,
Jakespeare is right about asking about the history of the HDD. On the other hand i will try listing as many possibilities that i have in my head that could possibly help...

1) NTFS on it, as previously said, but unlikely, 
   since fdisk sees NTFS properly, but cannot 
   do anything with it.
2) HPFS (unix/linux) is on this HDD and fdisk 
   sees this as either unknown partitition or
   not recognised FS. (more likely to be the case)
3) There is a dos partition made by Win 
   2000/XP/NT but it was not formated so
   fdisk is reporting that there is no FS installed
   (most likely scenario)

FS - File System

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