Re: accidental formatting

Michael Bond <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.morlug
Message-ID <[email protected]>
all hope is not lost.

first, clone the drive without making any further changes to it. This  
is an important first step and will serve as your backup in case  
something else happens. If the software you use to recover files  
completely screws up, you can always push the clone back too it.

Recovering any files is a bit trickier, and depending on the solution  
may end up costing some money. The only company that i know of off  
the top of my head that can recover linux/unix file systems is  
FinalData (www.finaldata.com), but according to their website they  
are still only doing ext2.

When redoing your boxes, don't forget to take a full backup :)

Mike.
[email protected]


On May 18, 2005, at 5:17 PM, [email protected] wrote:

>
> I was trying to install debian, and  I accidentaly formated the  
> wrong partition.  I had 2 drives connected at the time (set to  
> master/slave prperly) I stopped the format only a minet or two into  
> it so most of the partition should be fine.  but there was 90 gigs  
> of data that would be nice to have back (this is a personal  
> computer nothing too important just music and the like)  is there  
> any one that knows of a good progeam that can mount a partition  
> ( red hat 9 ext3) read the entire thing and rewrite the allocation  
> table leaving the data in tact so that it does not have to be  
> copied anywhere elese?  I have been looking a little bit but was  
> hoping for someone elese there to tell me of a program they know  
> works well, preferable free ;)
>
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