Is there any chance that when you were drag/dropping the files to the external hard drive, all you were really doing was creating shortcuts/aliases to the original files in their original locations?
If the files have real value to you, don't mess with the external drive at all. You may just do more damage. It will be very costly, but one of the commercial/professional data recovery services is your best bet. If files have merely been deleted in which case the directory entries are deallocatend and the files still exist, there are simple utilities for recovering data. But if the FAT itself is gone, data recovery is difficult and tedious. Fred Holmes At 06:04 PM 9/12/2008, Kelly J. Morris wrote: >mike wrote: > >>From windows or ubuntu, have you tried showing hidden files? From either is >>there unaccounted for space 'missing' on the drive...as in the linux files >>aren't showing up but they seem to be taking up space? >> >Mike - I had the same idea but there doesn't seem to be any missing space. >Thanks. Kelly > > >>On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Kelly J. Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >> >> >>>Greetings. I have just managed to lose all my data. >>> >>>In preparation for upgrading my Linux installation, I bought and installed >>>a WD USB 500 GB external drive. I copied all my data from my SuSE 9.2 >>>partition to the external drive. I rebooted to my WinXP HE partition and >>>saved my data to the same external drive. I then deleted the old SuSE >>>partition and installed Ubuntu 8.041 LTS where SuSE had been. I rebooted >>>into Ubuntu and looked for my folders on the external drive. They are not >>>there or, if they are there, I can't see them. Only the Windows folders >>>remain. >>> >>>I assume that, when I saved the Windows folders to the external drive, they >>>wrote over the files that were already there, i.e. the folders from my >>>previous SuSE Linux installation that I had saved there. It was not a case >>>of space - I had saved about 75 GB of files from my SuSE partition and only >>>about 10 GB of files from Windows (that I rarely use). >>> >>>Is there any way that I can retrieve my files? >>> >>>TIA. Kelly > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
