Fixboot & Fixmbr changed my drive from fat32 to fat16 partiton only show 10mb

[Tom]

Ok.
The log shows that a number of structure sectors did not copy, because they couldn't be read (from the damaged disk) during the cloning. As such I don't think that a repair will get you the right results. Also, there are some indications that it's going to be tricky to find out which structures were of which type, so rebuilding them will be difficult. Given how things have gone sofar I'm not comfortable with the idea that you are going to let DiskPatch loose on this disk. You've worked hard to come this far, the cloning took a lot of time, so we need to be careful here not to damage or alter the cloned disk.
With all this in mind my advice would be to install iRecover and attempt a recovery of files from the cloned disk.

Make no mistake: this is a conventional way of doing things; clone a bad disk and then recover files from the cloned disk. Repairing a cloned disk with DiskPatch is not often the right way because of the information that has been lost during the cloning (because of bad sectors on the original disk). So in all you are still on target for a hopefully successful recovery.

what do you mean by clone gaps?  is it because of something I did wrong?

Gaps are the areas that have not been cloned because they could not be read from the original damaged disk. So some areas on the target disk are blank because of this. If these now blank areas are part of a partition structure there's no way that the cloned disk can be repaired. It has nothing to do with what you did, it's a result of the original disk going bad.

Please note that the working day here is coming to an end. If you have more questions, speed things up. If not, download and install iRecover and get going with the file recovery. As stated earlier, you'll need a working windows and the cloned disk connected as a secondary disk. Consider purchasing the license right away, this allows you to get started with the recovery right away if iRecover finds the files (you won't have to re-run the analysis after you have activated the trial version). There's a discount for buying both products (DP and iRecover) at the same time but we'll work this out later, don't worry about that now. We're a very consumer friendly company.

[dataspinlog]

Consider purchasing the license right away, this allows you to get started with the recovery right away if iRecover finds the files (you won't have to re-run the analysis after you have activated the trial version). There's a discount for buying both products (DP and iRecover) at the same time but we'll work this out later, don't worry about that now. We're a very consumer friendly company.

I already purchased DP and very sadden it hasn't worked for me. I will check out the iRecover but for now I got to get some sleep.

[Tom]

I already purchased DP and very sadden it hasn't worked for me.

That's not correct. It helped you analyze and clone the disk.

[dataspinlog]

It helped you analyze and clone the disk.

Yes it did do that.  I indicated it didn't help me becaue it didn't fully resolve my problem

I finally have another computer up-and- runnig with winxp Pro and ready to use the iRecovery software.  Any suggestions or settings will be helpful.  Thanks.  Awake too many hours..I will do your suggestions over the weekend.

[Tom]

No suggestions for now. Run it and we'll see after that. Just read the included 'getting started'.

[dataspinlog]

Greetings,

I have ran the trail version of iRecovery.  

Init done - logging
Init start - misc
Init done - misc
Init start - types
Init done - types
Init start - caches
Init done - caches
Thread startup: copier, TID 000007D0
Optimizing for 0 CPU(s)
Init start - files
Init done - files
Init start - ident processing
Performance: Ident data query (3 of 3) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (9 of 9) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (2 of 9) 0s
Init done - ident processing
Init start - physical devices
Init done - physical devices

.... and then a log ...

Directory @LCN 341587 ("My Templates(2)") assigned a parent @LCN 341585 ("DIR01999")
Directory @LCN 341587 ("My Templates(2)") named "_YTEMP~1"
Directory @LCN 341587 ("My Templates") assigned a parent @LCN 341585 ("DIR01999")
Directory @LCN 341587 ("My Templates") named "MYTEMP~1"
Directory @LCN 341587 ("My Templates(2)") assigned a parent @LCN 341585 ("DIR01999")
Directory @LCN 342241 ("DIR02015") assigned a parent @LCN 341879 ("IMAGES")
Directory @LCN 342682 ("DIR02031") assigned a parent @LCN 34

[Joep]

Ok, and? Why did you post the logfile?

[dataspinlog]

I posted the analysis.  to get assistance as to what can be done and the success rate of rebuilding my data.  I am not sure what to make of this...meaning I recognize some names but what does this mean in terms of getting at least most of my data back.  

[Joep]

Hello,

The only way to determine if data can be recovered, is by trying it.

[dataspinlog]

how is this done within the software?

[Joep]

http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/forum/index.php?topic=368.0

[dataspinlog]

I did this but the tree name were not recognizable.  let me try running it again.

[dataspinlog]

Ok I did find the files

how come I can't place a check in more than than one box or select the top box because i want everything?

There's a discount for buying both products (DP and iRecover) at the same time but we'll work this out later, don't worry about that now. We're a very consumer friendly company.

whats my discount for the basic iRecover?

Thank you.

[Joep]

Hello,

Seen the state of the original disk this isn't suprising, as large portions if the disk were unreadable chances are that file system structures such as directory structures are effected too. For each file or folder iRecover can not find a parent folder for it will generate a directory name. Indeed that makes recognizing the old directory structure harder.

In the registered version you can select as many files and folders you want. Normal discount is 20% if DiskPatch and iRecover are purchased together. If you can sent me your order ID for DiskPatch in a private message I can sent a discount coupon.

[dataspinlog]

Greetings,

I have sent the order ID to you.  I trust private message is the same as personal message.