Recovering data from NTFS HD with lost partion table/info

"Scott Alfter" <salfter RemoveThis @salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org> wrote in message news:lUK8c.3522$GH3.2316@fed1read07
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 > In article c3tb0b$20ar2t$1@ID-79662.news.uni-berlin.de, Folkert Rienstra top-posted (grr):

Which I consider a minute offense compared to posting
someone's <reply address> instead of the <sender address>.

(huge grr)

  > > "Joep" <j o e p @ d i y d a t a r e c o v e r y . n l> top-posted (grr) in message news:1079563228.119830@waldorf.isd-holland.nl
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   > > > In the partition table it would say NTFS, however the file system you want
   > > > to recover from would be FAT32. As iRecover scan the partition it will find
   > > > more and more evidence that the data actually present corresponds with a FAT
   > > > type partition (assuming the partition was formatted in error and no data
   > > > was written to it yet).
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  > > So how does the FATxx designation get itself in the partition table,
  > > if not by the formatting operation?

I retract the question because -after reread- it didn't make any sense.
Apparently I misinterpreted Joep's answer.

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