On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:50:08PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: > > On 08/14/2014 09:31 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 08:55:12PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: > >>Need a tool that can scan an entire drive (which has no partition > >>table - as it got accidentally clobbered by dd'ing 512 bytes into > >>it), and determine start and end of ext(2/3/4) partitions. > >>I need this so that I can restore each ext? partition to a separate HD. > >>So far I have found a windows based tool from EaseUS.com , but is > >>not open source and > >>is not free. > >a few years ago I wrote a DOS partition table over the top of > >a USB drive containing an ext3 or ext4 partition, holding a couple > >hundred gigs of my son's anime collection. one could deduce that > >he wasn't happy. > > > >I found a program named something like "recover disk" or something > >like that for sale for a reasonable price (39.95??? comes to mind), > >from some outfit in India. they offered versions for windoze and > >for linux, and both could allegedly recover stuff from ext partitions. > > > >so I bought it, and with some head-banging managed to recover all > >the important files. > > > >I can dig around to see if I can find the actual name and/or a > >URL, let me know if you want. > > > >Fred > Thank you Fred. > I am more keen on open source, because at this point, after > having infected several windoze machines with for purchase > software, I do not wish to indulge :) > I wish you well! I purchased only becauase none of the free stuff I tried seemed to do the job, including testdisk. I'm a cheapskate, so you know I don't just go buy software on a whim (and I like libre software too, if I can get it.) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 --------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
