On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Jason Fraser wrote: > > Peter, > > Are you using MC to recover the data?
I use MC to locate the position of the data. Later, depending on what has to be recovered, I use different editors to recover the data. > > I found TestDisk a while ago. It is a data recovery program that will > recover EXT2, EXT3, etc ... From a list of programs. The only thing is > it must be already installed to recover data. This is the program site > link: http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html > While searching for a solution, I tried TestDisk. I installed TestDisk on the Windows side of my dual boot system. I did this to avoid over-writing even more formatted space (and therefore the data I wanted to recover). TestDisk I found was only good at rebuilding deleted file systems while still having the current operating system (like you said... already installed). It was useless in recovering anything from formatted space and especially after I did an upgrade with a complete install to SuSE 8.2. TeskDisk even recognizes Unix and Linux filesystem, but to no avail. I also looked into other file system builders, with the same results. These builders include reiserfsck and gpart (see man or info on reiserfsck -- rebuild-tree -- scan_whole-partition). I found that if the command switches were *slightly* off with reiserfsck, you would risk losing the whole partition. It was too risky. Eventually I found my own answer and shared the procedure with the mailing list. Although the procedure is in the archives, I know that some CLUG members prefer to see it live and in action, hence my volunteering to explain it at a presentation. Regards, Peter
