Re: Formatted wrong drive: recovery possible?

2009-12-26 Thread Paul DeShaw
> > On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 Mark Stuart Burge wrote: > It should just be a case of letting testdisk find the partition and then > using it to rebuild the table and voila! you have your files back again. > > Perhaps someone else out there knows of a better method though. > > In any case, if you can, to

Re: Good News! Found some backups!

2009-12-26 Thread Tommy yeah
Lost Partition If you made a mistake while partitioning and the partition no longer appears in the partition table, so long as you have not written data in that space, all your data is still there. GNU Parted Run Parted from the command line to recover your partition. When changing the partitio

Good News! Found some backups!

2009-12-26 Thread Paul DeShaw
Hello, I wrote recently about data loss...In my panic, I didn't have the mental capacity to check another drive I have. Happily, lot of that stuff had been saved, in a few different places, in preparation for various re-installs and upgrades. None of it is newer than, well, whenever Hardy came ou

Re: Formatted wrong drive: recovery possible?

2009-12-26 Thread Tommy yeah
Dear Paul in Seattle Yes, there is hope, as most of your data isn't gone at all. You just need to boot into an Ubuntu LiveCd this is from the community documentation: Lost Partition If you made a mistake while partitioning and the partition no longer appears in the partition table, so long as you

Re: Formatted wrong drive: recovery possible?

2009-12-26 Thread Mark Stuart Burge
On 26/12/09 14:31, Paul DeShaw wrote: > Greetings, > > While attempting to make a bootable USB drive, I accidently formatted > the hard drive with all my recorded work on it. Is it lost forever? > Are there people who can recover data in such a case? I would start by running testdisk on that dr

Formatted wrong drive: recovery possible?

2009-12-26 Thread Paul DeShaw
Greetings, While attempting to make a bootable USB drive, I accidently formatted the hard drive with all my recorded work on it. Is it lost forever? Are there people who can recover data in such a case? The drive does not mount, and Gparted says: "Unable to detect file system! Possible reason