you can always grab Helix live cd and try that you might be bale to get everything you need since it's full of tools for this type of thing.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
paul costa</b> <<a href="mailto:paul@paulcosta.com">paul@paulcosta.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Stephen Burke wrote:<br>> Hello all,<br>><br>> I guess maybe this might be a lesson in NOT doing things before being<br>> fully awake, but I screwed things up majorly here this morning and I'm<br>> not quite sure if I can recover or not.
<br>><br>> I have this machine with 2 200G drives in it. The first, with the<br>> system on it is the removable variety and the second was for dumping<br>> data onto that I wanted to be able to use from whichever system was
<br>> running on the first. (mostly ext3 and some fat32 and ext3 -since the<br>> main system here is dualbooted 'nix and xp -with a swap area in the<br>> middle)<br>><br>> Since I had a free drive to pop ino the first hd slot, I thought I
<br>> would attempt to install slackware 11 on it since I haven't yet really<br>> dabbled in the slack realm.<br>><br>> SO, after using fdisk to set up new partitions on the slack disk, I<br>> started merrily running through the install options, thinking that
<br>> since I had just set up /dev/hda in fdisk that that's where slack<br>> would assume it was supposed to go. So I hit "ok", not reading closely<br>> enough to see that it was asking to format hdb3 instead of hda3.
<br>><br>> I noticed after a couple of seconds that it was hitting hdb and killed<br>> it, but not, apparently, before it deleted the journal (was ext3) and<br>> presumably quite a bit of other crucial information.
<br>><br>> Then, trying to recover things, I booted up the main OS here which<br>> naturally started complaining when it hit that data partition. So I<br>> ran fsck there, which of course complained even more when everything
<br>> was out of whack. That was followed by all sorts of clearing of broken<br>> inodes and fixing of stuff, which I answered yes to all of, hoping<br>> that things might be put straight by that. There was alot of talk of
<br>> moving things to "lost+found" during that where once again I hit <y><br>> for everything, once again, full of futile hope.<br>><br>> Everything boots fine, now, but when I look at that partition I see
<br>> absolutely nothing. and when I look at the properties window I see<br>> "5.4 GB out of 9.8 GB (46% used)" when actually the partition should<br>> be 121.5 GB.<br>><br>> My question now is: since I killed the format before it went too far,
<br>> is there any hope of recovering any of the data that WAS there, or did<br>> I screw it up further by letting fsck "fix" and "clear" everything?<br>><br>> Any particular data recovery tools that I might look into, or is now a
<br>> "fait accompli" and I just have to resign myself to paying the price<br>> for being a bonehead?<br>><br>> Any advice at all is most welcome at this point, if only how to<br>> recover the 100+ GB of new space where I might put other stuff.
<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> S.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> nflug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br>> <a href="http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug">
http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug</a><br>><br>that sucks,<br>I did similar thing once, but I was lucky enough that I backed up my sys<br>to another drive before I ruined it<br>have you tried installing the drive in another machine as a slave or
<br>external usb drive, mount it and see if you get lucky ?<br>I don't have any software solutions for data recovery off the top of my<br>head but I remember an FBI agent giving a demo of data recovery tools at<br>school that he said you can download for a try. It was some type of
<br>forensic data recovery software. You could probably find some info on<br>google<br><br>peace<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org
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