RE: a tool that can recover partially formatted ext3 FS.
> From: Sthu Deus [mailto:sthu.deus@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:30 AM
> Subject: a tool that can recover partially formatted ext3 FS.
>
> Good day.
>
> Could You advise me a tool that can recover my files on partially
> formatted
> occasionally disk?
>
> The disk has ext3 FS. And I have canceled operation after few seconds
> since it
> started formatting.
>
> Thank You for Your time.
If you are trying to fix the drive or restore it, I have not ever had
any luck doing that. However, I have used testdisk to recover a file on
a drive that had been accidently wiped. It does have partition recovery,
but I have not had a high success rate with partitions, just files.
A google search brings up this article if you are interested.
http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/storage/8257-how-to-recover-lost-fi
les-after-you-accidentally-wipe-your-hard-drive
BTW, the disk that was wiped in my case was a well used 60GB drive. The
disk I used to recover the files to (since you don't want to over write
the current drive) was a 500GB hard drive. It "recovered" over 450GB of
stuff due to "recovering" deleted files/indexes. So make sure you have a
big drive and plenty of time to sort through it. I did get the important
file and a few other files, but it took a long time.
Hope this helps!
~S~
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