My imac internal hard drive switch from hsf to fat 32 or ms-dos(fat)

apple please i need your help, look i heva an imac 21 inches and the hard drive switch from hsf to fat 32 and i cant accsess to the os, i'm trying to solve the problem with the disk drill to recove my data from ann external hard drive with os x, and it is supposed to recover everything, but my real thing is, when i preview a video that i recover the video doesn't preview what happens is that the quicktime logo appears,
my question is when that happens what does it means?

You are non addressing Apple on these forums, we are all end users like yourself. Take your machine into an Apple Store or AASP, they will help you clear up the mess you have created.

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