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List:       linux-newbie
Subject:    Re: recovering a partition
From:       Hal MacArgle <haltec () kvinet ! com>
Date:       2005-12-18 17:50:07
Message-ID: 20051218175007.GA1619 () lnx2 ! w8mch ! ampr ! org
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On 12-10, Chris Largret wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 12:27 +0100, Nagy Viktor wrote:
> 
> > I wanted to change the filesystem of my ex-windows partition (I just wanted
> > to finish the migration from win 2 Linux) from vfat to ext3, but when I made
> > its backup I copied only one file instead of the whole partition. I would
> > like to restore it if possible.
> > 
> > The partition was vfat, now is ext3, and I already made a dd of it. (When it
> > was ext3.)
> > 
> > Is there a way to save my data? How can I do it?
> 
> Since you already formatted the drive as another file system, it will be
> difficult to retrieve files. It is still possible to find some as long
> as you didn't do bad-block testing or use some other method that wrote
> data to the partition before formatting.
> 
> 'grep' and 'dd' will be your most common commands.
> 
> For somewhat more high-level tools, take a look at the man page for
> magicrescue:
> 
> http://jbj.rapanden.dk/magicrescue/manpage.html
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> --
> Chris Largret <http://daga.dyndns.org>

	I just noticed "Test Disk" at SourceForge.. You may want to
check into that.. SF has a bazillion recovery apps..

-- 

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1   (2.4.29)
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