[LinuxUsers] Partition Deleted

[Chris Penn]

Testdisk and scalpel recover data off of drives.  In the ubuntu repos.
 Photorec is part of testdisk.

Chris...

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Dante Lanznaster <dantecl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>>
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>>  -Roger Penrose
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