On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Clayton
If you have a backup restore from that, if not (apart from the obvious "why no backup?"), I hope whoever has asked you to do this is paying by the hour or this a small drive with relatively few large files.
Well, this drive was to be the backup. Short story is... it started with a friend's personal computer with way too much data. They are migrating all computers in the house to Linux which in their case means moving all data off to backup reformatting and repartitioning from FAT32/WinXP to Linux. The USB drive was to be the main backup once the migration was complete. In this case, data was moved, and the broken FAT was only discovered after the original disk was overwritten.
So... unless by some chance there are duplicate copies of the same data on another drive, this is currently the only copy. Plan was to have the data on the PC hard drives, USB drive as the main backup, and a DVD RW secondary backup. We didn't get that far. :-( There are no other source to rebuild the data from....
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Guys, just a note since about a week ago, I posted almost the same question. That dd_recuse is worth looking at. It helped me recover 25Gigs, with only about 6 files lost. It very easy to use. This is a very good how to for dd_recuse and recovering a drive. http://blog.herbertm.ca/pages/badblocks-howto -- -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org