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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Subject: Re: Formatted over NTFS
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:33:00 -0800
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David Nielsen wrote:

[ David, please keep this on the list... ]

> Mike Fedyk wrote:
> 
>> David Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi..
>>> i was installing gentoo the other day, and by mistake did a 
>>> mkreiserfs /dev/hda1 instred of /dev/hdc1 :(
>>>
>>> /dev/hda1 was a NTFS file system with a lot of data that i dont wat 
>>> to lose , is there any way to "unformat" the new reiserfs filesystem 
>>> i made or any way to just restore the files on the disk ?
>>
>>
>>
>> mkreiserfs doesn't write a lot to the disk, so maybe you can just 
>> mount it as ntfs and see what you can recover (unless mkreiserfs wrote 
>> over your MBT file...)
>>

Try the userspace ntfs tools, or even windows >= NT