Quoting silence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'll take your word for it that you mannaged to use 'less' to display > the old data on the newly formatted (logical format lucky you ...) > hard disk partition. Hmmm..... If you were able to recognize the data > as it flashed on the screen, are you refering to plain text data? if > so I think you may be able to salvage it wholesale by redirectin the > output of 'less' to a file (IMPORTANT!: put it in another partiton. > and not in the partion where you want to recover data from.You don't > want to do more damage to the data in it right? ) then sort out the > data from the file you created.
Did that already. But I made several 300MB files from the 7GB drive. And there's a 2GB file size limit in ext2, right? I used a utility call fsgrab that I found on the web to create the files. > > Any help towards a recovery, no matter how tedious, would be greatly > > appreciated! (I'd say rewarded but I've got none to give. ;P ) > > Yup its tedious, you have to have a little extra space in another > partition (say around >4.1GB) and a lot of patience....... I suspect > this can also be done for binary files but I don't know how to read > them, or sort them out when their all mixed up in one file. :-) Yup. That's the plan for now. The biggest problem for me now is to find where the files start and stop. I can do this for the email and text files. But I'm hoping for an easier solution for my docs. The important ones are in StarOffice and OpenOffice.org - Writer and Calc. Thanks again. Qpid ------------- As they say in the US, "When it rains, it pours." But we're in Manila. "When it rains, it floods." _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
