recovering some deleted files on a fat32 partition?
I screwed up and deleted some files on a fat32 partition that is mounted. I really want to get some of these files back but am not having much look in my search for answers. All the solutions seem to point to this on Suse knowledge base: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/cg_rmfiles.html But after I umount /windows/E and then do debugfs /dev/hda2 I get the message "Bad magic number in super-block while opening filesystem" If I then still procede debugfs: lsdel I get: lsdel: Filesystem not open I'm a newbie and do not know much about file systems etc. The above and everything I read seems to be for ext2 file system which I'm guessing the fat32 partition is not. Is there still a way I may be able to recover these files that is not "super" difficult? Any help much appreciated, -- Rick
Le Vendredi 27 Décembre 2002 08:57, Rick Reumann a écrit :
I screwed up and deleted some files on a fat32 partition that is mounted. I really want to get some of these files back but am not having much look in my search for answers. All the solutions seem to point to this on Suse knowledge base:
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/cg_rmfiles.html
But after I umount /windows/E and then do
debugfs /dev/hda2
I get the message "Bad magic number in super-block while opening filesystem"
If I then still procede debugfs: lsdel
I get: lsdel: Filesystem not open
I'm a newbie and do not know much about file systems etc. The above and everything I read seems to be for ext2 file system which I'm guessing the fat32 partition is not. Is there still a way I may be able to recover these files that is not "super" difficult?
Any help much appreciated,
Hello, my knowledge of MS systems is 10^-100 thus i can't help you to recover. But just an advice: don't boot your system with windows. The reason is that you have only deleted entries in the FAT and not files. If you boot win, this virus can access your partition and destroy traces of your files. You can make a security backup of your E partition using the dd command dd if=/dev/hda2 of=lostdos this create a file (of stand for output file) named lostdos of your E (hda2) partition on your Linux system. This is only possible if you have enought space on disk ! ( sizes of file created and partition are the same ) It 's not neccessary to mount hda2 to use the dd command. And now wait and hope there is a solution, and somebody can help to recover files. Good night Franz
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 23:57:32 -0800
Rick Reumann
I screwed up and deleted some files on a fat32 partition that is mounted.
I managed to download a windows utility and recovered the fat32 files with this utility. -- Rick
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