On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 08:56:41PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 12.08.2010, Arno Wagner wrote: > > > That is untrue. > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302686 > > > A Windows Format/Quick Format does not blank the disk > > Yes, but since the old filesystem was not NTFS and is LUKS/dmcrypt encrypted, > all the files are gone now. That was what I meant. Indeed. However the OP also had unencrypted ext2/3 partitions that were Quick-Formatted, and from those he may still revocer data. > > ext2/ext3 for example have backup superblock copies distributed over > > the disk and recovery of all files/directories except those located at the > > start are quite possible with e2fsck after FAT formatting. Some > > recoverz should be possible after NTFS formatting. > > As far as I understand, the crypto layer on the now NTFS formatted > filesystem is no longer active, making it impossible to use any data > recovery on it. What am I missing? The unencrypted partitions. BTW, 'active' is not a good word to use here. Better: The Metadata of the encryption layer has been irreperably damaged. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
