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punkrockguy318

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From: New Jersey

Registered: 2004-02-15

Posts: 711

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Holy mess!! Deleted all my mp3s!! Help!

I just accidently deleted all the mp3's on my FAT32 partition with a rm *... Is there any way I can recover these besides re-ripping the cds??  What can I do?  I haven't touch the computer since I entered the command.. How can I recover these rm-ed files!

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soffcore

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Registered: 2004-04-27

Posts: 42

Re: Holy mess!! Deleted all my mp3s!! Help!

I just accidently deleted all the mp3's on my FAT32 partition with a rm *... Is there any way I can recover these besides re-ripping the cds??  What can I do?  I haven't touch the computer since I entered the command.. How can I recover these rm-ed files!

Well seeing that it was on a fat32 drive you can get any number of data recovery software, such as Getdataback ( what I used to use )

Egil.B

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From: Universitas Osloensis

Registered: 2004-02-14

Posts: 116

Re: Holy mess!! Deleted all my mp3s!! Help!

Ripp the cds again, but make sure you use ogg vorbis instead

lanrat

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From: Poland

Registered: 2003-10-28

Posts: 1,274

Re: Holy mess!! Deleted all my mp3s!! Help!

There is fsck.vfat utility in dosfstools package. It supports undelete but you must give it a full path to undeleted file so it's not very usable in your situation. You could also use mundelete from sf.net but this tool just doesn't work :-)
The best option would be to start some dos/norton utilities/windows bootable floppy/cd and use undelete/unerase options. Undeleting all the files shouldn't be difficult in case of fat32.