Thanks for the quick response. Looks promising with file recovery, though it didn't have any luck trying to detect lost partitions on my hdd. Granted, it has been quite a while after my last formatting/resizing. But I love the no-crap interface.
Neeraj Mundayur MODEL ENGINEERING COLLEGE, COCHIN. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Sumit Sati <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Neeraj Mundayur <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi pros, >> >> >> A 'newbie' friend of mine inadvertently formatted his *ntfs* partioned >> SATA hdd into a single *ext3* partition. Can you suggest an application, >> preferably free, that I can use from linux, as I've got a *linux >> installed external hdd*, to recover the lost partitions as well as the >> files. >> >> I've done some googling myself. Most of the apps are either only for win >> or lin partitions. Most of the other solutions are meant for big >> enterprises. A simple *app to recover ntfs partitions from linux* is what >> I'm looking for. >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Neeraj Mundayur >> MODEL ENGINEERING COLLEGE, >> COCHIN. >> > > Hi Neeraj, > > if you have to recover partitions, may be testdisk is a useful tool for > you. you can get it from http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk and whats > more it works on windows and linux both. > > -- > Regards > Sumit Sati > COT Pantnagar > Bill Cosby <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/bill_cosby.html> - "A > word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the > advice." > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
