Re: Deleted Partition Recovery ?
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:12:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 16:35 +0500, Nayyar Ahmed wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > One of my PC have two hard-disks, one is used for
> > Linux and other for M$ windows, My young brother
> > unfortunatly have deleted the partitions of that
> > M$ windows hard-disk and by using FDISK(DOS)
> > have developed a single FAT32 partition of that hard-disk.
> >
> > Problem was created when he told me that our all family photo
> > albums were in that deleted partitions, I am un-able to recover those
> > lost directories. Is there any solution to my problem ?
>
> He deleted multiple small DOS partitions, and successfully,
> validly created 1 big partition? If so, blech.
>
> If you remember *exactly* how the disk was partitioned beforehand,
> maybe you could recreate those files by recreating the partitions
> and running "Norton Undelete" on that partition.
You could also try gpart, a tool that scans your disk looking for known
filesystem beginnings. However, if he also formatted the new partition,
I guess it will be difficult.
Frank
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