On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:43:41 -0400, dhk wrote: > While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran "mke2fs /dev/sda1" > instead of "mke2fs /dev/hda1". When I realized the mistake (about 2 > seconds later) I hit Ctrl-C before mke2fs was done. Now I can't > mount the drive. Is there a way to read the drive to get the data off > or is it unrecoverable?
The data is still there, mke2fs just reset the superblock. Photorec will recover file contents from a filesystem like this. It only recovers the contents, not the metadata, so you'll end up with files with meaningless names, but as they are video files I suspect there are not too many of them and they are fairly easy to identify. At least it's less work than importing and editing them all again. -- Neil Bothwick I am in total control, but don't tell my wife.
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