[LinuxUsers] Partition Deleted

[Dante Lanznaster]

if the partition is just deleted and nothing else is done, you might be able
to recover by recreating a partition with the same FS and same parameters as
before.

I don't know any Linux progs to recover data, but on windows you can use
either pcinspector file recovery (www.pcinspector.de), getdataback or
ontrack easyrecovery pro.

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I screwed up a very important drive.
>
> I bought a 1tb FreeAgent Seagate USB drive, came formatted with
> Vfat32.  I backed up a windows machine, drag and drop, to the drive,
> less the 40GB of data.  Then I started to install windows on the PC
> that the drive was plugged into.  I deleted the partition on the
> Seagate drive, like a moron, but I did not format the drive.
>
> Does anyone in the group have suggestions on restoring the old
> partition.  I am currently using photorec to recover the files, sector
> by sector, and I am getting files.  The files are coming with
> different file names, like recovery programs do.  In about 10 hrs when
> that recovery is done I am going to look into restoring the old
> partition.  I am hoping there is a way to recover the partition or
> data with the correct file names at least.  I have never needed to do
> this before, so I am looking for suggestions.  I really need to
> recover this data,
> so all thoughts are welcome.
>
>
> Chris...
>
> --
> "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to
> be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity."
>  -Roger Penrose
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