On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Neeraj Mundayur <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. >> > That may be because you didnt lost any partition but recreated your partition table for the single ext3 partition. its good to know that it helped you. -- Regards Sumit Sati 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
