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Re: Deleted Partition Recovery ?



On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 13:43 +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, that's the problem.  There already *is* a valid partition.

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