[Klug-general] Disaster Recovery?

[Laurence Southon]

On 24/04/11 07:53, sharon kimble wrote:
> I've just installed Debian 6 as my desktop and in the process managed 
> to format and install debain 6 onto my external hard drive. This 
> contained <all> my backups of everything in my home folder. So now 
> I'm having to start afresh with everything but means that I've also lost 
> everything too.
> 
> The drive was formatted either ext3 or ntfs, i'm not sure which, but i 
> would be eternally grateful if someone could restore all the information 
> on it, or work with me following their commands to restore it. 
>
Further to the post recommending photorec, a couple of articles well
worth a read before you start:

http://www.debian-administration.org/search/?q=photorec&cmd=Search!&go=Go

Good luck!

LS
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Laurence Southon
Tiger Computing, Bexley
www.tiger-computing.co.uk