Fred Holmes wrote:
Fred -
Is there any chance that when you were drag/dropping the files to the external
hard drive, all you were really doing was creating shortcuts/aliases to the
original files in their original locations?
I don't think so. After dragging-and-dropping the folders to the
external drive, I tried to open a file and discovered that it was no
longer there. That's when I saw that everything that I had
dragged-and-dropped had been moved, not copied, to the external drive.
Since I was getting ready to delete the SuSE installation anyway and I
could easily access and manipulate the files on the external drive, I
proceeded to delete the SuSE and install Ubuntu in its place. I made the
mistake of saving Windows to the same external drive before deleting
SuSE and installing Ubuntu.
If the files have real value to you, don't mess with the external drive at all.
You may just do more damage. It will be very costly, but one of the
commercial/professional data recovery services is your best bet. If files have
merely been deleted in which case the directory entries are deallocatend and
the files still exist, there are simple utilities for recovering data. But if
the FAT itself is gone, data recovery is difficult and tedious.
Where do I find the data recovery untilities? Is there a data recovery
service that you recommend? I live in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Many thanks. Kelly
Fred Holmes
At 06:04 PM 9/12/2008, Kelly J. Morris wrote:
mike wrote:
From windows or ubuntu, have you tried showing hidden files? From either is
there unaccounted for space 'missing' on the drive...as in the linux files
aren't showing up but they seem to be taking up space?
Mike - I had the same idea but there doesn't seem to be any missing space.
Thanks. Kelly
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Kelly J. Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
Greetings. I have just managed to lose all my data.
In preparation for upgrading my Linux installation, I bought and installed
a WD USB 500 GB external drive. I copied all my data from my SuSE 9.2
partition to the external drive. I rebooted to my WinXP HE partition and
saved my data to the same external drive. I then deleted the old SuSE
partition and installed Ubuntu 8.041 LTS where SuSE had been. I rebooted
into Ubuntu and looked for my folders on the external drive. They are not
there or, if they are there, I can't see them. Only the Windows folders
remain.
I assume that, when I saved the Windows folders to the external drive, they
wrote over the files that were already there, i.e. the folders from my
previous SuSE Linux installation that I had saved there. It was not a case
of space - I had saved about 75 GB of files from my SuSE partition and only
about 10 GB of files from Windows (that I rarely use).
Is there any way that I can retrieve my files?
TIA. Kelly
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