Yes, there are many alternative free opensource NTFS recovery tools available: http://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+ntfs+recovery&btnG=Google+Search and first one on the list is: http://memberwebs.com/stef/software/scrounge/ On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:42 AM, rishi agrawal <postrishi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I had a 60 Gb partition of type NTFS. > > I accidently deleted it. > > I want to recover the whole partition as recovering few files from it is not > useful for me > > > Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x165e165e > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 3916 31454208 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 3917 30400 212732730 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/sda5 3917 5483 12586896 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda6 5484 12010 52428096 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda7 12011 19843 62916608 6 FAT16 (this is the > drive i want to recover) > /dev/sda8 19844 22454 20972826 83 Linux > /dev/sda9 22455 22976 4192933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/sda10 22977 24282 10485760 6 FAT16 > /dev/sda11 24282 25588 10485760 6 FAT16 > /dev/sda12 25588 26893 10485760 6 FAT16 > /dev/sda13 26893 28199 10485760 6 FAT16 > /dev/sda14 28199 29504 10485760 6 FAT16 > /dev/sda15 29504 30400 7197696 6 FAT16 > > Disk /dev/dm-0: 59.0 GB, 59055800320 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7179 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x00000000 > > > i want to recover sda7. > > Can Linux help me in any way.... dd...or raw read write... how to proceed > > -- > Regards, > Rishi B. Agrawal > > -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ