On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 08:02:07PM -0700, linux guy wrote: > Is there any way to sniff out the old partition table ? What would > I need other than the partition table sizes ? I know I had boot, > swap and / partitions... FYI: A year or so ago I had a USB HD with 200-300 gigs of irreplaceable data on it, formatted as (iirc) ext3. then I accidentally (some might say "stupidly") did a DOS format on the drive. MAJOR OOPS. I tried some free tools to recover files, and didn't find them very helpful (one of 'em saved bazillions of files with no useful filenames). googling around I found a company doing business in INdia selling software that will recover windows/dos/mac/linux filesystems, and can run on windows or linux. not finding anything else promising, I sprung for the 50 bucks. the software is somewhat flaky, isn't necessarily trivial to use, some of the options don't work in intuitive ways. but to shorten this long story, I managed to recover pretty much everything that was on the drive, after banging on it for a few days. I had some questions about how to use the software that I sent via email to their support email address, a couple of times, and have yet to receive any response from them, so it's clearly a case of caveat emptor. As best as I can remember, it was called "Recover Data for Linux". So, if you've got a hosed partition table, you may be in a similar position to what I was in, so maybe, just maybe, it would be helpful for you. YMMV! I'm not providing any warranties. > > Is there any way to copy (and possibly recover) the raw data from the > drive ? Possibly using dd or something ? > > I tried using partimage, but as you guys know, if there is no > partition (partition table), it can't copy it. > > What are the chances that if I could recover the partition table that > the data would still be there ? > > Aside: this caught me TOTALLY off guard. SMART was enabled for this > drive, the drive was checked periodically, etc. This laptop hadn't > moved off my desk in months and was basically only rebooted to run > newer kernels. > > I did my last backup about a month ago. I have a backup of all my > emails, so that is good. All my digital images are stored on a > separate drive, so none of them were lost. I'm trying to figure out > what content I added in the last month... documents, etc, that got > stored in /home/me. I shudder at the thought of sorting this all > out. > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- The Lord is like a strong tower. Those who do what is right can run to him for safety. --------------------------- Proverbs 18:10 (niv) ----------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
