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Hi,
I made the biggest of mistakes today. I nearly formatted my /home partition. Luckily I noticed quite quickly and reseted my system before it formatted for too long.
Now that partition is corrupted. I now that most of the data there should be safe. I even ran some recovery software that found all my files. Unfortunately it can't recover them.
Is there any way to recover my data. I only need a few files that are essential.
BFC
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Ok here's an update:
I used "testdisk" to check my partitions and they seem to be ok (i.e. I have all my old partitions).
GParted also confirms that all my partitions are there. However my NFTS and /home partitions produce a warning sign in GParted.
Also my system refuses to boot to either windows or linux. Instead it demands that I enter some sort of "system disk" i.e. it is not recognising my NFTS or EXT3 paritions.
I assume there is a problem with my MBR here?? How should I go about fixing it?
What would be the best way to get my EXT3 partially-formatted partition back. In reality I only need a few files that I need to rescue from there. All the rest if backed up.
BFC
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Try http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Boo … recovering.
EDIT: OK, that was stupid. Just re-read your post.
I've done this. I just can't remember how. Do a
pacman -Ss recover
and google what you find.
Last edited by tigrmesh (2008-01-29 05:54:06)
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My HD crashed some time ago. To recover its data, I used "dd", as explained here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-64 … ight-.html
I don't know if it can work for you, but can be worth a try...
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