On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:06:35AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear List - > > I have a usb drive, with data on it, that I [stupidly!!] tried to > name using fdisk. Of course, it erased the data. I have not used > the drive since then. I think there is a method to "unformat" a > drive. What shall I do now? If you've only used fdisk, then you've not erased your data, you've just "lost" it. Like taking the index out of a book. First of all, back up the USB disk so that if anything goes wrong, you don't make things worse $ dd if=/dev/sdX of=~/Usb-stick.img Next up, install "testdisk", then run "testdisk USB-stick.img". The program should be fairly self-explanatory; it will scan the disk looking for things that look like partitions and rewrite the partition table accordingly. As you've not got disk corruption and you've only deleted the partitions, it *should* go painlessly. :)
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature