Is it possible to recover raw data which has not yet been overwritten after a partition has been reformatted. I accidently re-formatted my home partition and it is now my root partition but still has quite a bit of free space on it. If anybody could tell me what utilities could read the free space for any fragments of data, it'd be much appreciated. I have lost a lot of emails and I would like to get them back even if it is only in raw data format. Trouble is now, I don't have a home partition. I only have a root partition. Therefore I cannot unmount my root partion (SuSE has an annoying habit of doing this). I wouldn't have erased it if my mum hadn't been shouting at me at the time. When trying to run 'recover' I get the following: linux:/home/george/Documents/recover-1.3c # recover Recover v1.3b by Tom Pycke <Tom.Pycke@advalvas.be> Scanning devices... Ext2 devices: device: /dev/hda2 mount point: /boot If your device is not listed, you can still use it Please enter the partition's device name /dev/hda6 Getting inodes (this can take some time)... debugfs 1.28 (31-Aug-2002) /dev/hda6: Bad magic number in super-block while opening filesystem lsdel: Filesystem not open George