So I screwed up a very important drive. I bought a 1tb FreeAgent Seagate USB drive, came formatted with Vfat32. I backed up a windows machine, drag and drop, to the drive, less the 40GB of data. Then I started to install windows on the PC that the drive was plugged into. I deleted the partition on the Seagate drive, like a moron, but I did not format the drive.
Does anyone in the group have suggestions on restoring the old partition. I am currently using photorec to recover the files, sector by sector, and I am getting files. The files are coming with different file names, like recovery programs do. In about 10 hrs when that recovery is done I am going to look into restoring the old partition. I am hoping there is a way to recover the partition or data with the correct file names at least. I have never needed to do this before, so I am looking for suggestions. I really need to recover this data, so all thoughts are welcome. Chris... -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
