From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: Re: recovering a partition Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:50:07 -0500 Message-ID: <20051218175007.GA1619@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> References: <1134240581.6589.6.camel@shogun.daga.dyndns.org> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1134240581.6589.6.camel@shogun.daga.dyndns.org> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On 12-10, Chris Largret wrote: > On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 12:27 +0100, Nagy Viktor wrote: > > > I wanted to change the filesystem of my ex-windows partition (I just wanted > > to finish the migration from win 2 Linux) from vfat to ext3, but when I made > > its backup I copied only one file instead of the whole partition. I would > > like to restore it if possible. > > > > The partition was vfat, now is ext3, and I already made a dd of it. (When it > > was ext3.) > > > > Is there a way to save my data? How can I do it? > > Since you already formatted the drive as another file system, it will be > difficult to retrieve files. It is still possible to find some as long > as you didn't do bad-block testing or use some other method that wrote > data to the partition before formatting. > > 'grep' and 'dd' will be your most common commands. > > For somewhat more high-level tools, take a look at the man page for > magicrescue: > > http://jbj.rapanden.dk/magicrescue/manpage.html > > Good luck! > > -- > Chris Largret I just noticed "Test Disk" at SourceForge.. You may want to check into that.. SF has a bazillion recovery apps.. -- Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1 (2.4.29) . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs