[Klug-general] Disaster Recovery?

[nic dan]

I normally use Testdisk, which is one of the tools on my TRK utility CD...more info/download here

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?content=TRINITY_RESCUE_KIT_DOWNLOAD&front_id=12&lang=en&locale=en

TRK has other utilities on it, too, but after burning the iso, pop it in, with the offending drive connected and boot

[Read the section on lost/corrupted partition fat tables]

type testdisk at the prompt, and follow the instructions to analyze the drive....it should see the existing and previous partitions...once your happy that it sees the correct info, save/write the fat table for recovery...it should be that simple....good luck

Aitch
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> From: boudiccas at talktalk.net
> To: kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:53:20 +0100
> Subject: [Klug-general] Disaster Recovery?
> 
> 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. 
> 
> i can be contacted here through email, or on the irc #klug channel with 
> the same nick.
> 
> Can you help me recover from this disaster please?
> 
> If not, do you know any reputable disaster recovery people who don't 
> charge an arm and a leg for restoring it?
> 
> Sharon.
> 
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