Testdisk and scalpel recover data off of drives. In the ubuntu repos. Photorec is part of testdisk.
Chris... On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > -- "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
