Re: Formatted Disk
On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 10:30 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Ethan Rosenberg, PhD:
> >
> > 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?
>
> Generally, it should be possible to access the filesystem if you restore
> the previous partitioning scheme. I don't think putting a label on a
> partition should have destroyed existing partitions, but anyway.
>
> If you cannot restore the old partition layout for some reason, you can
> install testdisk and use the program "photorec". It can restore almost
> anything, unless you write to the disk. Caveat: photorec will not
> restore the directory layout. You will have one directory with
> everything in it.
Before you do anything like making a backup with dd and/or use photorec
or any other recovery tool of that kind, mount the USB stick read only.
Until you haven't restore your data, mount it only read and write, when
needed.
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