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HOW CAN I RETRIEVE MY LFN STRUCTURE IN W2K PRO?

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tkim

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i had to recover my data from a h/d and it changed all my LFNs to SFNs! is there a way to change it back? thanks!!!
 
Not likely. LFN information is stored in the clusters with the file, if something 'recovered' the data but left the LFNs behind there's no getting them back.
 
damn....~! i hope that you are wrong! 😉

well, i have heard that it is possible. anyone else with a simiar experience?

thanks!!

 
When a file with a LFN is created in a FAT filesystem the LFN is stored in 'extra' clusters that are marked with an invalid combination of attributes. This makes earlier versions of the filesytem drivers that don't know about LFNs just ignore them and allows newer ones to use them fairly well. The problem is (other than wasted clusters because of that stupid hack) as soon as you work with a program that doesn't understand the LFNs it discards them and you have no way to get them back because the cluster has been freed and/or reassigned to another file.

I guess it would be possible to scan for unassigned clusters with the invalid set of attributes and pull the LFNs from them, but you'd have no way to know which SFN they belong to.
 
thanks.

i guess i will just have to rename about 4000 file manually 🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁

damn...i thought i had no life now..... this is going to kill what i have left! 🙁🙁🙁
 
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