> > One of my friend just installed OpenSUSE 11.0 on his desktop and during > installation process he formated ALL windows partitions. > > Immediately after the installation he realised that he forgot to take backup > of emails in Outlook Express. > > Is it possible to recover data from formatted windows partition? How? >
mkfs.ext3 writes in approx 2-4MB of the start of the disk partition, and other blocks in between. So the data still might be available, but the way to access it is not. It is possible through careful examination of data, block by block, to gather up data which "connects", but it is a very tedious and exhaustive task. However, the more you use the recently formatted ext3 partition, lesser are the chances of getting your data back. So at a simple users level, there is no quickfix tool available, and hence it is no_ possible recover the data, but it can be done by professional filesystem experts. -- Goldwyn _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
