There was a tool called Tiramisu, it could recovered formatted HD I don't know if this tool still available, especially for NTFS since I never used MS anymore. Last time I used it was only available for FAT 16 On Sunday 30 December 2001 10:34, you wrote:

The question is not related to this list, because it concerns a win98 (or NTFS) formatted HD. Never the less I post the question here as I hope to get to learn if it is possible to retrieve the "lost" data with our superb OS :))

My neighbour though to be able to quickly install MS XP next to his MS windows 98. However, the XP installation started to format his whole disk instead of a partition. After 2% in the format process he stopped the installer. I checked with "dd if=/dev/hda ..." and it looks like his data is still here. With other words the table of contents has been removed by the format tool (according Norton Utilities the disk is not formatted and contains no data ;)

Is there a some way a retrieve files from that HD? I guess one needs to know how the underlying filesystem format and then it is possible to do.

Is there a tool that can do this.

Just curious if linux can rescue a MS windows HD...

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