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chuckychuck

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From: Paris, France

Registered: 2008-07-01

Posts: 25

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SOS : Accidentally deleted my entire FAT32 partition ...

Hi !
I accidentally deleted my entire FAT32 partition ( ~80 Gigs ), i wanted to delete a mount point, but i forgot the partition wall still mounted ...
i used rm -R themountpoint as root

it's FAT32, and i didn't write anything to the partition since then, my data isn't lost is it ?

how can i recover it ? ( from linux if possible )
i remember very long ago there were tools to recover the lost files, but file by file .. is there a way to "undelete" the files of the partition ? without having to save the files one by one on another driver/partition ( with 80gigs of musics and videos it'd be soo long .. )

i have a also have a WinXP partition on my computer if the necessaray tools are only available on windows ...

please help my, my "whole life" is on that partition ....

thanks

Last edited by chuckychuck (2008-12-27 13:37:02)

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: SOS : Accidentally deleted my entire FAT32 partition ...

Maybe this might help:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … on-623474/

ArchArael

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Registered: 2005-06-14

Posts: 504

Re: SOS : Accidentally deleted my entire FAT32 partition ...

A friend of mine had similar problem...she deleted a folder on her usb stick.

I helped her with sleuthkit. It's in community repo.

http://www.sleuthkit.org/

kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

Re: SOS : Accidentally deleted my entire FAT32 partition ...

I used testdisk to recover deleted files. It is available in community repo. This may also help you.

kjon

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From: Temuco, Chile

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 398

Re: SOS : Accidentally deleted my entire FAT32 partition ...

The commercial approach to your problem might be 'datarecovery'. I downloaded that program and it recovered 250gb. from a damaged ntfs partition caused by ntfs-3g.

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chuckychuck

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From: Paris, France

Registered: 2008-07-01

Posts: 25

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Re: SOS : Accidentally deleted my entire FAT32 partition ...

thanks everyone i'll take look at these programes