Am Freitag, 16. August 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 10:30 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Ethan Rosenberg, PhD: > > > I have a usb drive, with data on it, that I [stupidly!!] tried to > > > name using fdisk. Of course, it erased the data. I have not used > > > the drive since then. I think there is a method to "unformat" a > > > drive. What shall I do now? > > > > Generally, it should be possible to access the filesystem if you restore > > the previous partitioning scheme. I don't think putting a label on a > > partition should have destroyed existing partitions, but anyway. > > > > If you cannot restore the old partition layout for some reason, you can > > install testdisk and use the program "photorec". It can restore almost > > anything, unless you write to the disk. Caveat: photorec will not > > restore the directory layout. You will have one directory with > > everything in it. > > Before you do anything like making a backup with dd and/or use photorec > or any other recovery tool of that kind, mount the USB stick read only. > Until you haven't restore your data, mount it only read and write, when > needed.
I often used a tool called "getdataback_for_fat" , and "getdataback_for_ntfs". There is a demo version available. If this does not work, you can try dd the drive to a file, and then extract your data from this file. For this part I am using "deft-7.2", which is a forensic livesystem. Version 7.2 is the last, with "hb4most" on it, a nice GUI for the famous tools "foremost" and/or "scalpel". DEFT got also other tools on it. And it is linux! Debian based, as far as I know. It also has other tools on it. For Windows thereis DARTS2 on the CD, which is also very mighty. Hope this helps Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201308161838.33193.hans.ullr...@loop.de
