J. Craig Woods wrote: > How will knowing the filesystem help? You say the partition is still > there, and "untouched". Well, my friend, if you have re-formatted the > drive, it is not *untouched*. As a matter of fact, it is touched in a > big way. Your data is gone, gone, gone. Now if you only deleted the > partition by removing boundaries, there is help. It is complicated but > you can recover data.
Interesting subject that I'd like to learn more about. My impression is that Linux does something by default more like what is called a "quick format" in dos / Windows. IIUC, such a format doesn't "zero out" all the data, but does something different which, I believe leaves the data intact on the disk, but not easily readable. Maybe there is a way to recover the data? There are ways to recover deleted files in Linux, especially if they are text files. IIUC, it is not fun -- you basically read the disk "raw" and then try to reassemble the files from clusters or whatever. The original poster did do a good thing (I think) if he tried to avoid using the system after he formatted the drive -- the most important thing in recovering files in dos / Windows is to stop saving files until you can run a file recovery program, as any new file might overwrite some portion of the deleted file. I know I'm mixing "deleted file" and "formatted partition" and probably confusing the issue -- may someone can clarify some of these points? Randy Kramer
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