On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 15:33 +0200, Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 14:01, Dave Barton wrote:
Apologies to Carl for sending this direct, instead of to the list.
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 07:29 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 07:17, David Barton wrote:
Although I have never used (or needed) it before, I am aware that there is recovery software out there. Can anyone here suggest or recommend a package (open source or commercial, I don't care) that might help get me out of this predicament.
One possibility: I think 'mc' can recover 'deleted' files in certain situations. Open a shell, type 'mc' and navigate to the partition containing the data. Just take care not to write anything to that partition until you've got what you want off of it.
Thanks Carl, but it appears that 'mc' can only do this with ext2fs and I need to recover from fat32 & reiser. No I am not going write to either of those 2 partitions. In fact I am not going to touch that box until I am ready to attempt some kind of recovery, or reformat :_( the whole flaming thing.
Thanks Leendert,
Recovery from FAT32 *is* possible. I did that once for my sister. Her ex-boyfriend trashed her HD; fornutately the nitwit did a quick format on W98 or so, and I was able to recover most of the files.
The proggy was:
GetDataBack for FAT 2.20 (there's an NTFS version too)
Alas it runs on XP.
I purchased a licence for GetDataBack for FAT V3.03. Unfortunately, it's recovery algorithm was too efficient, because it found lots of bits and pieces from an old W2K installation previously installed on the partition, but only a few of the files I really wanted to recover. I bought R-Undelete (about a third of the price of GetDataBack) and I have now recovered 100% of all the deleted files i wanted from the FAT32 partition.
Maybe superfluous: * remove your HD if possible until you are ready, or do not use the partition in question. * make a backup of the HD, or the partition *first*, e.g.: dd if=/dev/hda of=hda.img or dd if=/dev/hda21 of=hda21.img * operate on the HD *or* on the copy, so you can restore from the other if needed.
I am about to take a shot at recovering files from one of the reiser partitions on the same disk. For this I am going to follow your tip about using dd to make a backup image. I understand how to create the image, but could you (or someone) tell me how to restore from the image if it should be necessary. Thanks in advance. Dave -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com