if the partition is just deleted and nothing else is done, you might be able to recover by recreating a partition with the same FS and same parameters as before.
I don't know any Linux progs to recover data, but on windows you can use either pcinspector file recovery (www.pcinspector.de), getdataback or ontrack easyrecovery pro. On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
