Just to let you know, that i used Testdisk last night. It worked a treat. I am in the process of retrieving my data. I have managed to get back at least 65%. Have almost filled up a 240gb on a 300gb disk.
I am most grateful to all of you for your help. 2010/1/25 javadayaz <[email protected]> > will testdisk let me do a search file type at a time? so for example i can > search for mp.3 files in one search, .doc in the next and so on? > > 2010/1/25 Rob Beard <[email protected]> > >> Quoting javadayaz <[email protected]>: >> >> > The original hard drive was 400gb and the new one im installing is the >> > 300gb...i could try and use that! >> >> Ahh, problem is, it won't fit on the 300GB drive. dd will copy >> everything on the drive regardless of if there is data there or not. >> >> You'd need a 400GB or larger hard drive, ideally possibly larger >> unless it's an identical model drive (I've found in the past that some >> drives from different manufacturers despite being listed as the same >> size, they can be slightly different in capacity). >> >> If you're really stuck you could possibly use gzip to create a backup >> image of the drive to your 300GB drive... >> >> dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -9 > /media/harddrive/backup.img.gz >> >> where /media/harddrive is the location of where the 300GB drive is >> mounted, if you mount it from Gnome then it's likely to be mounted on >> a folder in /media >> >> To be honest though if you can afford it, you could well be worth >> getting another drive to back it up on to just in case. >> >> Rob >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >> > > > > -- > Regards > > Javad > > -- Regards Javad
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