Dear all, Thanks for the advice. I ran testdisk from a parted magic live disk after a chat with Douglas and the only recovery option it had was for deleted files while the other was for lost partitions. I lost the data when i backed it up on a secondary partition on a laptop and run the laptop's original recovery disks only to discover after the re/installation that both partitions had been automatically deleted and re-written. I have been running the laptop on a ubuntu 9.04 live cd to avoid overwriting the data on the hard drive. Am actually trying to recover it from drive C which has windows vista on it.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Douglas Onyango <[email protected]>wrote: > Just what i was thinking. Especially considering that Parted actually has > tools for RAID. > > > Regards, > Douglas Onyango +256(0712)981329 > Life is the educators practical joke in which you spend the first half > learning, and the second half learning that everything you learned in the > first was wrong. > > --- On *Thu, 1/28/10, Reinier Battenberg < > [email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [LUG] data recovery > To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010, 3:42 PM > > > > It might fit in nicely with Noah's talk! > > > -- > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > +256 782 801 749 > www.mountbatten.net > > > > > On Thursday 28 January 2010 12:07:11 Simon Vass wrote: > > Also resizing and moving partitions about. Can't beat gparted. Forget > > Partition magic! > > > > hmmm do I see a future LUG topic ? > > > > > > > > Simon Vass > > Technical Manager > > E-Tech Uganda Ltd > > > > http://www.etech.ug > > Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 > > email: [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > > skype: e-techservicedesk > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Douglas Onyango" > > <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > > > > To: [email protected] <http://mc/[email protected]>, "Linux Users > Group Uganda" <[email protected] <http://mc/[email protected]>> > > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 10:43:34 AM GMT +03:00 Iraq > > Subject: Re: [LUG] data recovery > > > > > > The Parted Magic Live CD has Test Disk as well as a bunch of other Disk > > Maintenance utilities. > > > > You might want to get this in your repertoire for posterity - like those > > incidences when you can't boot into ubuntu to actually install or run > the > > TestDisk utility, or better just fixing the disk without detaching from > > affected system and attaching it to the system with the utility. > > > > Regards, > > Douglas Onyango +256(0712)981329 > > Life is the educators practical joke in which you spend the first half > > learning, and the second half learning that everything you learned in > the > > first was wrong. > > > > --- On Thu, 1/28/10, Kyle Spencer > > <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > > > > > > From: Kyle Spencer <[email protected] <http://mc/[email protected]> > > > > Subject: Re: [LUG] data recovery > > To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" > > <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > > > > Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010, 9:48 AM > > > > > > Seconded. > > > > sudo apt-get install testdisk > > > > On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 00:20 +0000, Daniel Bwente wrote: > > > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk > > > > > > Ubuntu has a rescue disk with a myriad of tools, but i found Test-disk > > > very handy. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Muganwa Michael < > > > [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]>> > > > wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > Am trying to recover data from a formatted ntfs partition > > > which i have mounted onto a ubuntu 9.04 machine. Am am looking > > > for a reliable data recovery tool that i can run on linux and > > > recover files from ntfs partitions. Ive tried google and i got > > > too many results which i found abit confusing so am turning to > > > you my friends. > > > > > > Rgds, > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > LUG mailing list > > > [email protected] <http://mc/[email protected]> > > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them > > > (including attachments if any). 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