As I said googling 'data recovery' will bring some hits. Most software have free trials and will let you scan the drive to see if they find anything, then if they do, want you to buy the program.
Ontrack's easy recvery pro is one such program. http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/data-recovery-downloads/ Mike On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Kelly J. Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Fred Holmes wrote: > > Fred - > > 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? >> >> > I don't think so. After dragging-and-dropping the folders to the external > drive, I tried to open a file and discovered that it was no longer there. > That's when I saw that everything that I had dragged-and-dropped had been > moved, not copied, to the external drive. Since I was getting ready to > delete the SuSE installation anyway and I could easily access and manipulate > the files on the external drive, I proceeded to delete the SuSE and install > Ubuntu in its place. I made the mistake of saving Windows to the same > external drive before deleting SuSE and installing Ubuntu. > > 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. >> >> > Where do I find the data recovery untilities? Is there a data recovery > service that you recommend? I live in Prince George's County, Maryland. > > Many thanks. Kelly > > 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/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: >> 270.6.21/1669 - Release Date: 9/12/2008 2:18 PM >> >> >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** 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/ ** *************************************************************************
