accidentially deleted partition

efossvold · 2007-02-15 07:39:19

I accidentally deleted a partition on my external hardrive
using this command:

mkdosfs -n STUFF /dev/sda1

(retarded I know..:rolleyes:).

Luckily I don't have any critical files on this drive, but there's some
nostalgic games n such that I'd like back.

Is there anyway to get it back or is it lost forever?

noriko · 2007-02-15 08:28:18

well i dunno anything about file recovery in *nix file systems but
restoration http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dlrestoration.html
is a very good fat342+16 file recovery tool.

btw, i think it will help if you state te file system you want to recover files from.

efossvold · 2007-02-15 09:30:31

Thanks, I might try that.

If not, anyone else know about restoring in *nix?

Bob Day · 2007-02-15 13:49:35

I'm not sure, but I think you can use testdisk for this:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Snowman · 2007-02-15 19:56:09

Try lde (pacman -S lde). It seems to be able to recover files. I've never used it though.

efossvold · 2007-02-15 20:17:54

I tried testdisk, but it doesn't recover files, only fixes lost partitions/mbr's 'n such.

lde has very limited support for FAT unfortunately, doesn't seem to find all the files.

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