You could buy the software the recovery companies themselves use. Is not that
expensive and from the error message you should be able to recover the whole
drive since the software does not need a valid FAT to see the contents of the
drive.

Depending on the size of the drive it may take up to 24 hours or more
to complete the recovery. You will also need another drive, at least the same
size of your
existing drive, so the recovery software can dump on it what it recovers.

You get to keep the software and charge other people for this service. Ontrack

sells the software that I've used and it works great.

HTH,

Jose

"Ryel, Raymond L NWP" wrote:

> When I re-booted my PC the message "C: has no FAT32" came up. What options
> do I have? buy a new hard disc; reformat and reload everything or try to
> recover the data from one of those recovery companies?
> Thanks
> Raymond
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